Funmi S. O.

Wife | Mother | Chartered Accountant | Management Consultant | Advocate for Good Governance, Equality & Justice.

[NEFERTITI @firstladyship]

Oyo children have spent 38 days in the bush. Borno children have spent 38 days in the bush.

Nigerians are specialists in adjusting & moving on. We are slowly forgetting the innocent ones.

They never asked to be born in Nigeria. 💔💔

[Instant Foot ⚽️ @lnstantFoot]

Félicitations à Jeremy Doku et sa femme pour la naissance de leur premier garçon. 👶🏽❤️

[𝐌 @MooreRMCF]

Adingra won Côte d’Ivoire their first AFCON in 8 years and yesterday they’re calling for his head because he failed to take a shot.

Fans will forget whatever good you do once you make a mistake, your family won’t. His first ever child too.

[Actu Foot @ActuFoot_]

🚨 France Pierron est SUSPENDUE D'ANTENNE par La Chaîne L'Équipe après ses propos polémiques sur Jérémy Doku 🇧🇪.

La journaliste ne présentera pas "L'Équipe de choc" ce lundi.

🗞️ @clem_garin

[MaziTundeEdnutfan @originalproflle]

“How can you give me a ballot paper that has been thumbprinted already?”

- HIS BALLOT WAS ALREADY VOTED FOR HIM. A voter in Ekiti State received a ballot paper that was already thumb printed before he even entered the booth.

[Sam @FPLSportScience]

There are also hundreds of thousands of men who would love to be Dad's but can't. Having a child might also never happen again in your life.

The Dad is not useless at the birth. What an abhorrent quote and attitude towards life this woman has. Go and meet your child, Jérémy ♥️

[Motivaciones Fútbol @MotivacionesF]

🚨 ¡L’Équipe TOMA MEDIDAS! 😳🇫🇷

La reconocida cadena francesa apartó de la pantalla a France Pierron a partir de este lunes, según informó el periodista Clément Garin.

La decisión llega después de la fuerte polémica que provocaron sus comentarios sobre Jérémy Doku, quien abandonó temporalmente la concentración de Bélgica para acompañar el nacimiento de su hijo. La presentadora calificó el parto como un “momento asqueroso”, unas palabras que desataron una enorme ola de críticas en redes y medios.

La controversia fue tal que L’Équipe terminó ofreciendo disculpas públicas al delantero belga y decidió suspender de inmediato a la comunicadora.

💬 ¿Crees que la sanción fue justa o excesiva?

[SKI @skiistiredasf]

19-year-old Jessica Hyatt from Brooklyn, New York, has made history as the youngest Black female to earn the prestigious US Chess Federation National Master title!
This brilliant young chess prodigy, who started playing at age 3 achieved the milestone in August 2024 and is now the highest-rated African American female chess player in U.S. history. She has represented the USA National Youth Team multiple times, defeated grandmasters, and continues to break barriers in a sport where Black women are underrepresented.
From Brooklyn to national recognition — this is Black excellence and excellence on full display. Congratulations, Jessica! Keep dominating the board. 🙌🏾🔥

[TheLowkeyMummy🤎 @TheLowkeyMummy]

Happy Father’s Day to the men who show up quietly.

The ones who carry pressure without announcing it.
The ones who keep trying, even when nobody claps.
The ones whose love may not always be loud, but is deeply felt.

Know that you are seen and loved🤎

[Holy Bible @Holy__Bible1]

Happy Father Day🙏

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

Michelle Obama had a problem.
She was standing in Buckingham Palace, about to sit down to a state dinner hosted by Queen Elizabeth II — one of the most formally dressed women in the world, wearing jewels that had adorned British royalty for centuries — and the gift she had brought was a $50 brooch from an antique shop in Washington D.C.
It was May 2011. President Barack Obama and the First Lady were on a state visit to the United Kingdom — only the second time in history a sitting American president had been granted that honor. The palace had pulled out all the stops. Chandeliers blazing. Footmen in livery. The Queen in full regalia, diamonds catching the light.
And Michelle's gift was a small moss agate brooch from a vintage store called Tiny Jewel Box.
Barack Obama would later recall the moment with a smile. "The Queen was dressed up quite a bit for the state dinner," he said. "It was a little bit concerning for Michelle, because as a gift to Her Majesty, Michelle had selected a small, modest brooch of nominal value."

The brooch was beautiful, in its quiet way. Made in 1950 in America, crafted in fourteen-karat yellow gold, set with diamonds and pale green moss agate in the shape of a small flower. Delicate. Personal. The kind of thing you find when you're not looking for something grand — when you're just looking for something true.
Michelle presented it to the Queen that evening, alongside the official state gift — a carefully assembled album of photographs and memorabilia from King George VI and Queen Elizabeth's historic 1939 visit to the United States, something the Queen was said to have been visibly moved by as she turned the pages.
But it was the little brooch that told a different story.
The following evening, the Obamas hosted their own reciprocal dinner at Winfield House — the official residence of the American Ambassador in London. It was a room full of heads of state and royalty, an evening of its own formality and grandeur. The Queen arrived.
And on her lapel, she was wearing Michelle's brooch.
Not one of her legendary pieces. Not a diamond parure gifted by a Commonwealth nation or a sapphire set that had passed through generations of the royal family. The small American flower from a Washington antique shop — worn the very next night, in front of everyone.
Obama said: "The one thing we immediately noticed is that she was wearing the brooch that Michelle had given her. It was an example of the subtle thoughtfulness that she consistently displayed. Not just to us, but to everybody who she interacted with."

The Queen understood something that is easy to forget in rooms full of expensive things: the value of a gift has nothing to do with its price. It has everything to do with what it says. That brooch said — I chose this for you. I thought of you when I saw it. I wanted you to have something made by American hands, something personal, something that wasn't pulled from a state inventory.
The Queen heard every word of it.
She kept the brooch. It became known in royal circles as the American State Visit Brooch, and it appeared on her again on notable occasions over the years — a quiet signal, each time, of the warmth she carried for the people who had given it.
The exchange, it turned out, went both ways. The Queen gave Michelle a gift of her own that visit — an antique brooch of red coral and gold, shaped like a rose. Two women, surrounded by all the machinery of state protocol, quietly giving each other flowers.
When Queen Elizabeth died in September 2022, Barack Obama released a video tribute. He talked about how she reminded him of his grandmother — the same wry humor, the same no-nonsense grace, the same ability to make everyone around her feel genuinely seen. And he told the brooch story. The $50 antique. The state dinner. The moment the next evening when they walked in and saw her wearing it.
"She could not have been more kind or thoughtful to me and Michelle," he said.
Queen Elizabeth II owned jewels that belonged to empires. Pieces that had passed through the hands of kings and queens across centuries of history. Stones worth more than most people will ever see in a lifetime.
And when she wanted to tell someone that their gift had mattered — that the thought behind it had reached her — she pinned a small moss agate flower to her lapel and walked into the room.
That is the kind of person she was.
Kindness, when it comes from a genuine place, doesn't need to be expensive.
It just needs to be worn.

[Red Media @RedMedia_us]

Crime in New York City has fallen to a historic low under Zohran Mamdani, with the city reporting the lowest number of murders and shootings in the first five months of any year on record.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

This is Sophia Dominic. She is 13 years old and an SS1 student of Federal Government Girls College, Owerri.

She took first place in the elimination round of the Sterling Bank Maths Quiz beating every school in the country.

The grand finale is today at 6pm on YouTube.

She will compete with the other top 10 finalists today for the grand prize.

[Derrick Evans @DerrickEvans4WV]

She borrowed $49,548.74 in student loans.

120 payments later, she’s paid $25,558 — and now owes $50,121.

She’s paid on it for years and still owes more than what she originally borrowed.

The entire thing is a SCAM to enslave the young people.

[Decoding Fox News @DecodingFoxNews]

Taxpayers didn't pay for Obama's library.

[Onuoha Lorenzo @unkle_renzoo]

“Nigerians please don’t forget us in the bush”!

[Nigeria Stories @NigeriaStories]

Sad 😢 💔

Families in anguish as Oyo students spend month in captivity

[Michelle Obama @MichelleObama]

Barack: You told me all those years ago that you couldn’t promise me the world, but you could promise me an interesting life. Of course, you outdid yourself and managed to give me both.

Eight years in the crucible, and not once did you melt from the heat. Not once did you let it harden you. Instead, you used it to reveal your truest essence: your stubborn optimism and unflinching courage, your dazzling brilliance and unpretentious decency, your ferocious work ethic and absolutely unshakable moral fiber.

[Jenni @hashjenni]

It seems like Mamdani doesn’t even have an office he just works the streets like a smiling genie granting common wishes