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If you thought sponge colors were just for aesthetic appeal, you’d only be partly correct. The bright pink, yellow, blue and green hues they come in signal how and when to use them. Use the wrong sponge on the wrong surface, and you could end up with some hopelessly scratched appliances or damaged cookware. It took me 40 years to stumble upon this information, and it explains the unsightly scratches dotting my stovetop and fridge. This guide is to help you avoid a similar fate.  Sponges are color-coded for reason. Robin Mosley/CNETLearning to decode these colors can also help prevent cross-contamination. Designating…

A Former Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has described communication as the most strategic tool of governance, stating that effective leadership extends beyond policy formulation and implementation. Mohammed made the remarks on Thursday in Lagos during the reading and signing of his new book, Headlines & Soundbites: Media Moments That Defined an Administration. In a statement issued on Friday by the Head of Public Relations and Strategic Communications, Media Office, Abuja, Nnamdi Atupulazi, the ex-minister noted that governance demands sustained engagement with the citizenry. “Governance is not only about making and implementing decisions. It is about explaining the…

Nigeria’s prolonged power outages, affecting homes and businesses across the country, are primarily due to inadequate gas supply to thermal power plants, the Nigerian Independent System Operator announced on Friday. The system operator attributed the sustained drop in electricity generation to severe fuel constraints affecting the national grid. In a statement titled “Declining Power Output Attributable to Generation Shortfalls and Gas Supply Limitations” released on its official X handle, NISO said the average available generation currently hovers around 4,300 megawatts, far below Nigeria’s installed capacity. The outages began in early February following scheduled maintenance on key gas supply infrastructure by…

The Governor of Adamawa State, Ahmadu Fintiri, said he joined the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to align the state with federal government for the interest of the state’s development. The governor stated this in a broadcast on Friday morning at the Government House in Yola. The event was attended by his cabinet members and high-ranking government officials. Mr Fintiri stated that “the years of sideline politics is over and Adamawa state is back to mainstream politics – a politics that will benefit it more than ever before”. He added that his defection to the APC means “more opportunities for…

Wireless operator MTN Nigeria logged N1.1 trillion in post-tax profit for 2025 in breakaway from two years of sour fortune starting from 2023, during which stormy currency reforms in Nigeria hammered earnings and plunged balance sheet in red. The return to profit drew big support from a 50 per cent tariff hike announced by the industry regulator last February to succour telcos after a much weaker naira dented operations. Not only did that boost earnings, but it also powered the local unit of Johannesburg-based Africa’s biggest mobile service provider, MTN Group, to a record N5.2 trillion revenue. Data income continued…

News » Premier League news » Chelsea newsFebruary 26, 2026 20:31 GMT (UK), by Sri Aswin Essugo back in training Chelsea midfielder Dario Essugo has returned to full training ahead of the Premier League clash against Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium on Sunday. The Blues have dropped points against Leeds United and Burnley in their last two league matches. They took the lead in both games, only to squander the advantage with stalemates.Chelsea have dropped three points behind fourth-placed Manchester United as a result and will be determined to return to winning ways against the Gunners on the road this weekend.Ahead of the game,…

The Senate Leader, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, in partnership with the National Emergency Management Agency, has distributed multimillion-naira relief materials to thousands of rainstorm victims in Ekiti Central Senatorial District of Ekiti State. The beneficiaries were mostly residents whose buildings were destroyed by the stormy rain that hit several communities in the senatorial district on February 11, 2026, leaving hundreds homeless. The gesture covered victims from Irepodun/Irepodun, Ado, Efon, and Ijero local government areas in Ekiti Central Senatorial District. Bamidele, who represents the district in the National Assembly, spoke while distributing the materials to beneficiaries at Ijero Ekiti and other locations…

We will prescribe it, preach it, teach it, and then go home and do the complete opposite. There is an unspoken agreement in healthcare that nobody talks about. We will tell you everything you need to do to live well, and then we will quietly go about living like regular, flawed, tired, caffeine-dependent human beings. We have heard every lecture, read every journal, passed every exam, and we still do exactly what you do when nobody is looking. Sometimes when everybody is looking. I am a public health professional surrounded by doctors, nurses and every kind of healthcare worker imaginable,…

African Heads of State and Government formally launched the Africa Infrastructure Financing Facility, a continent-led platform designed to accelerate the preparation and financing of priority cross-border infrastructure projects aligned with Agenda 2063. The launch took place during the Third Presidential High-Level Dialogue of the Alliance of African Multilateral Financial Institutions, held on the sidelines of the 39th African Union Summit under the theme ‘Strengthening Africa’s Financial Architecture to Finance Agenda 2063’. The President of the Republic of Ghana, John Mahama, African Union Champion on AU Financial Institutions, said the continent has domestic capital pools exceeding $2.5tn. “The challenge is not…

President Tinubu’s Executive Order has halted N2.1tn NNPC deductions and sparked oil sector debate. NewsOnline Nigeria reports that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s executive order stopping the deduction of management fees and the Frontier Exploration Fund by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) has effectively cut off revenue streams that generated about N2.076tn over four years. An analysis of monthly earnings submitted to the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) shows that NNPC retained N20.739bn in 2022, N695.9bn in 2023, N452.6bn in 2024, and N906.91bn in 2025 from the deductions — bringing the total to approximately N2.1tn between 2022 and 2025.…