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Fifty Shades of Grey’ which showed in most major cinemas in Nigeria in its first week of release, has been banned in Nigeria cinemas by the National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB). NFVCB, according to cinemas, ordered the removal of the highly anticipated movie from the list of movies showing at cinemas.

Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) has re-assured Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) that they would exercise their civic rights in the upcoming general election. Retired Colonel Mohammed Hamanga, the INEC National Commissioner in charge of Bauchi, Borno and Yobe states, stated this shortly after a tour of IDP camps in Maiduguri. He said that INEC was initially worried about the possibilities disenfranchising thousands of the IDPs who had been forced out of their homes by the prevailing insurgency.

Not fewer than 10 people have died and several others injured in an attack on a hotel in the centre of the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses say. Two huge explosions followed by gunfire were heard at the Central Hotel, often visited by politicians. The city says the area has been cordoned off. Al-Shabab Islamist militants have said they were behind the attack - they are battling the UN-backed government for control of Somalia.

[Photo source: XXL Magazine] American rapper, Wale, has hinted that he may be moving into Nigeria in a series of tweets although, he has barely been in the news recently, dropping only one song all through 2014, and not featuring in any major track. Wale, who is dropping his much anticipated album The Album About Nothing (TAAN) in March, on Twitter confirmed his discussion with Mavin Records' Don Jazzy and Reekado Banks, on a proposed collaboration.

It’s probably best not to cross Team Kardashian—especially now that Yeezy is onboard. On Friday morning, Kanye West sat down for a radio interview on Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club, where he spoke candidly about his forays into the fashion world, his new Yeezy Boost sneakers, his relationship with his wife and the mother of his child, Kim Kardashian, and daughter North West’s recent runway-side crying fit during his New York Fashion Week debut.

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) yesterday called on the Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba, to arrest those responsible for the murder of the Director, Institute of Agricultural Research (IAR) of the Ahmadu Bello University, Professor Ahmad Mustapha Falaki, or universities in the country may be forced to shut down.

Apple plans to start production of an electric car by 2020, Bloomberg News reports, based on anonymous sources. The relatively short time frame to develop a new advanced-technology car from scratch may take the auto industry by surprise. Automakers can typically spend three to five years or longer to bring a new model to market. Apple would be doing it without having had any previous background in in the prickly world automaking, which is riven with complications ranging from myriad regulations to having to line up dozens of suppliers.

Bobbi Kristina Brown, the only child of singer Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, was found by husband Nick Gordon unresponsive in a bathtub. The scenario was all too similar to the manner in which Houston died on the eve of the 2012 Grammy Awards. (Photo: Jason LaVeris, FilmMagic) But her condition remains unchanged, a source close to the situation but unauthorized to speak publicly about it tells USA TODAY. There has been no official update on her health status, and the removal from the ventilator does not indicate any decision has been made as to her life support, says the family source. Brown has been on a ventilator since Jan. 31, when she was hospitalized after being found unconscious in her bath tub in her Roswell, Ga., townhouse.

The iconic hip hop figure was rushed from a courtroom to a hospital for the second time this month. Embattled rap mogul Suge Knight was rushed to hospital from a courtroom for a second time on Thursday. The former Death Row label owner was taken from a Los Angeles courthouse to a local hospital during his latest court appearance. According to the New York Daily News, a courtroom source said that Knight was taken to hospital shortly after 9 a.m. on Thursday, in an ambulance closely followed by a car from the L.A. County Sherriff’s Department. Suge Knight was taken to hospital again

The Italian took the ball from Henderson in the Reds' 1-0 win on Thursday night and took to Instagram to ask for "no drama" as the row rumbled on Row: Balotelli in discussion with Henderson and Sturridge Mario Balotelli has taken to Instagram to have his say on the penalty incident during Liverpool's win over Besiktas. The Italian took the ball from the hands of stand-in skipper Jordan Henderson , to convert from the spot, giving his side a vital lead in the Europa League last 32 tie.

It was reported the man asked a group of drunken women to stop shouting over the film before he was attacked Tragedy: The family of the victim have requested that he not be named A man attacked by three drunken woman at a screening of the film 50 Shades of Grey lost his mother less than a day later. The victim, 56, was attacked in front of his 51-year-old wife at a Valentine’s night screening of the raunchy movie at the Grosvenor Cinema in Glasgow. The attack made worldwide headlines after appearing in the Daily Record this week.

Mother: My son went to Syria to help women and children  Mother: Talk to your kids about ISIS before someone else does 6 photos Christianne Boudreau's voice wavers slightly as she recounts how her little boy became an ISIS militant. Every word seems tinged with anger and regret, but most of all, purpose. The process of radicalization is gradual and persuasive, she said. And deadly. Her son, who joined ISIS's ranks in Syria, was killed in fighting there more than a year ago.

A black man abused on Paris metro by Chelsea 'fans' wants his attackers to be punished The man identified as Souleymane S. intends to make a police complaint He was speaking in interview with Le Parisien newspaper A black man who was physically stopped from getting on the Paris metro by soccer fans says they should be "locked up" and that he intends to make a complaint. Filmed on a mobile phone by a bystander waiting on the platform of Richelieu-Drouot station, the incident took place before a Champions League tie between English club Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday.

Conflict has blighted northern Mali for decades The Malian government has signed a ceasefire deal with rebels in a bid to end long-running unrest in the country's north. As part of a UN-sponsored peace process, both sides agreed to an "immediate cessation" of hostilities. The deal was signed during talks that began in Algeria on Monday.

Tunisia have filed an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport over the threat of being banned from the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations. The Confederation of African Football has given Tunisia until 31 March to apologise for accusing the body of cheating or they will be suspended.

President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday in Lagos assured Nigerians of routing the Boko Haram sect as he inaugurated four of the Nigerian Navy Ships (NNS). “Let me use this platform to promise my Nigeria country men and women that we will rout Boko Haram”, Jonathan said at the Naval Dockyard Ltd in Victoria Island venue of the inauguration.

Nigerian warplanes bombarded training camps and caches of weapons and vehicles belonging to the Islamist group Boko Haram in the northeasterly Samibisa forest on Thursday, the military said. “The death of a large number of terrorists has been recorded while many others are also scampering all over the forest and out of the struck bases,” defence spokesman Major-General Chris Olukolade said.

The Ukrainian army was pushed out of the strategic town of Debaltseve by pro-Russian separatists on Thursday Britain and the European Union have been accused of a "catastrophic misreading" of the mood in the Kremlin in the run-up to the crisis in Ukraine. The House of Lords EU committee claimed Europe "sleepwalked" into the crisis.

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has said that the secret trip made today, by the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Major General Mohammadu Buhari (rtd) to the United Kingdom (UK) enroute United States of America (USA) for medical treatment has shown that the APC leaders, especially Senator Bola Tinubu were covering up his (Buhari) true health status for their selfish gains.

*says Ekiti audio tape leak not enough evidence evidence against use of soldiers Femi Fani-Kayode, Director of Media and Publicity, PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation The Presidential Campaign Organisation of PDP on Thursday alleged that APC was determined to cause security breaches ahead of the general elections and stop the use of soldiers because of its plans to unleash terror and intimidate voters. Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, Director of Media and Publicity of the organisation, made the allegation at a news conference in Abuja.

Members of Yoruba Council of Elders visiting President Jonathan at State House, Marina, Lagos State President Goodluck Jonathan is optimistic that Nigeria’s story will change in the next two or three weeks as it continues battle Islamist sect in the northeast of the country, noting that, the country should not be viewed from the terrorist point of view alone. The president made the statement when he received the Yoruba Council of Elders Council (YCE) at the State House, Marina, Lagos.