April 1
-NITEL GSM: FG drops Siemens, Alcatel
- Picks Ericsson, Motorola
-28 parties meet to decide on participation in April polls
- Arewa expresses concern
- US envoy warns parties against discrediting electoral process
April 2
-NLC suspends strike as FG agrees to increase wages
-FG withholds N12bn derivation for March
-Sextuplets’ mother loses four babies
-Elections: Obasanjo, Guobadia, N’Assembly leaders hold crucial talks
-Obasanjo defends rejection of Mbadinuju
-NITEL: Pentascope needs $900m for capital projects – BPE
-INEC moves commissioners
-Black market sale of petrol booms
Lagos State Deputy Governor Mr Femi Pedro With President
April 3
-BPE states new electricity firm for management contract
-FG releases report of EAS plane crash
-Salaries: Percentage increase not fixed – FG
-INEC to declare results at polling centres
- Salim leads C’Wealth observers
April 4
-Leadership crisis delays inauguration of financial crimes commission
-BPE opens bid for six government firms
-Lagos PDP targets industrial sector
-Elections will be successful – Salim
-Warri Crisis: Obasanjo summons community leaders
-Officials seize ID Card forms
-Nobody can stop elections – INEC
April 5
-Poverty negligence killed my 4 babies – father of sextuplets
-Amputate political thugs, IG orders policemen
April 6
-INEC disqualifies 7 million voters
- 61 million to vote
-JAMB fraud: LAS official, 10 others arrested
Atinuke Ige
April 7
-Financial aid to Nigeria hits N209bn
-Realtors optimistic as NDIC’s properties gets a second chance
-Office gadgets disappears from National Assembly
-Niger-Delta youths blow up oil pipelines-NNPC
-Polls: Guobadia, INEC chiefs hold last minute talks
April 8
-Sino Africa offers $66m for NAFCON
-NAMA, French firms’ seize Saddam’s palaces
-Nigerian leader of pro-Iraqi group arrested
April 9
-Budget 2003: We are still waiting for National Assembly- Kpakol
-FG begins liquidation of Airways
-Harry Marshall: Police arrest, parades suspects
-We are prepared for this election- Obasanjo
- Election must hold- Council of State
- We will have successful poll says Obasanjo
-14 parties call for interim govt, tip Obasanjo as head
-Sextuplets: Lagos probes death of four babies
-Ogbeh escapes assassination
-Police create13 new divisions
EAS Plane Crash
April 10
-Pentascope: NITEL MD, directors face retirement
-American troops topple Saddam
- Widespread jubilation, looting in Baghdad
-Contractors, corporate bodies hijack political campaigns
April 11
-Forex demand declines by 29% – CBN
-Atinuke, Ige’s widow is dead
-NDP loses bid to stop elections
- Preparations continue amid hitches
-LG polls hold June 21
-Nigeria Airways owes pensioners N1bn
-Polls: Police deploy special squad in Lagos
-ICPC Act won’t be abrogated – Obasanjo
Electoral Officers Returning Ballot Boxes To Result Collation
April 12
-PDP erred in fielding Ibori – Ogbeh
-D-Day: 500 jostles for 109 senatorial seats, 2000 for 360 Reps seats
April 13
-Eight die in pockets of violence
- Gunmen snatch ballot boxes in Enugu
-Peaceful poll, large turn-out
*I am satisfied – Obasanjo
-We have shamed our critics – Guobadia
GUOBADIA
April 14
-Pentascope to take over NITEL after polls
-Marginal field operators face $35m financial constraint
-AD loses South West
…as Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ondo, Ekiti fell to PDP
- Retains Lagos
- ANPP gains Kano, Katsina, Kaduna
-Danjuma’s wife, Saraki’s daughter emerge
- Maccido’s son, Lar’s daughter lose
-FG retains Ribadu as EFCC Chairman
-S’Court dismisses appeal by ANAN members
-Long queue returns to station
April 15
-BPE postpones NITEL’s IPO
-FG approves CBN’s saving certificate
-Obasanjo, Adesanya in crucial talks
- Afenifere, AD govts allege rigging
- Na’Abba accepts defeat
-PDP maintains lead
- EU, AU differ on poll conduct
- Dooms’ day prophets shamed – Obasanjo
-15 pellets recovered from Ige’s body
