Oprah launches online store full of luxury hand-picked favorites

The Oprah empire is really expanding. 61-year-old Oprah Winfrey's network has just unveiled The O Store, an online retailer with a focus on exclusive Oprah merchandise, but also including a variety of items off the TV legend's O List from her magazine.

Just as in her annual Favorite Things list, the O List items are not for the bargain shoppers. From $125 cakes to $200 earrings, the products run from gadgets to sweet treats, but only for those who are heavy in pocket.

The main part of the new site features products from the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) shows including the Super Soul Sunday and the Peace Love World clothing line that came out of The Life You Want Weekend tour.

The store will also feature online learning classes from OWN's O Courses platform.

And the O List section will certainly draw plenty of attention with it's varied sections including food, beauty, jewelry, clothing and even home and garden.

ICPC to probe Fashola, Akpabio, other governors

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission, ICPC, has set up a task force to immediately probe eight former state governors. According to Punch, a top operative of ICPC, who confided in their correspondent said that the task force was set up following petitions written against the former governors.

Investigations have commenced for former governors; Alhaji Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano State; Chief Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers, Alhaji Ibrahim Shema of Katsina and Sullivan Chime of Enugu State while the other four, Mr. Raji Fashola of Lagos State, Godswiil Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State, Martin Elechi of Ebonyi State and Alhaji Sule Lamido of Jigawa State were on the waiting list.

Huh? Adamawa Gov. appoints man as Commissioner for Women Affairs?

Well that's according to journalist, Bashir Ahmad...

Anna Ebiere shows off her daughter with singer Flavour (photo)

The former beauty queen welcomed her daughter with Flavour about a month ago. She's beautiful!

Photo of ex governor Akpabio's car after the accident yesterday

Above is the Mercedes Benz car former Akwa Ibom state governor, Senator Godswill Akpabio was riding in with his driver when it had an accident at Bolingo Junction close to Ship House in Abuja yesterday morning. Akpabio who suffered injury to his chest was discharged from the National Hospital Abuja yesterday evening.

Oshiomole defends Buhari's appointments

Following the public outcry over president Buhari's appointments made recently, the governor of Edo state Adams Oshiomole, has released a statement defending the appointments of President Buhari.

In the statement signed by his chief Press secretary, Peter Okhiria, Oshiomole said the appointments made so far have been based on merits. According to him, the time has come for Nigeria to use unusual methods to solve her unusual problems. The statement in part reads;

"The Nigerian nation has come to a point where we have to use the best hands to confront the peculiarity of our problems. It is not all the time we descend to the level of geopolitical balancing; we need to employ unusual methods to solve an unusual problem. The level of decay in the country at present requires very seasoned hands and incorruptible Nigerians that will help translate the APC agenda of change for the benefit of all Nigerians. We must not reduce governance to political patronage of bread and butter. The governor congratulates the Chief of Staff, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation and the Comptroller General of Customs, all of who he had very close relationship with and whose credentials stand tall among their compeers. He wishes them well in their new jobs of helping to sanitize a system that has become so rotten and corrupt as a result of manifest incompetence and mismanagement.”

As spotted in Saki, Oyo state (Photo)

Wow...