A police Corporal in Port Harcourt, Rivers State Command (names withheld) has been arrested over the theft of a five- month-old baby and selling it for N250,000 to a childless Rivers woman, who is married to a foreigner.

OFFICERS of Tin-Can Island port Command of Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, yesterday arrested a suspected hacker, Mr Adedoyin Shofola, who allegedly broke into the customs work station and downloaded vital information from the customs computer.

Academic activities in universities in the country may be halted as the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Calabar Zone, has directed its principal officers in the zone to call an emergency National Executive Council, NEC, meeting to take a decision on what the union described as unwillingness of government to sign the amended bill on the retirement age of academics.

A FEDERAL High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to provide the information sought by Mr. Olasupo Ojo, of Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, CDHR, pursuant to provisions of the Freedom of Information Act.

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, yesterday said there was no going back on the September 30 deadline for the eight rescued banks to recapitalise.