AllAfrica News: Legal and Judicial Affairs

[Daily Trust] The father of a 30-year-old man allegedly stabbed by his 18-year-old wife in Dass Local Government Area of Bauchi State has recounted how his son escaped an alleged attempt to slit his throat before being stabbed in the stomach hours later.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The High Court has ruled that President William Ruto's announcements giving teachers and police officers priority in the allocation of affordable housing units cannot change the criteria set out in law.

[Premium Times] PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported that the Federal High Court in Abuja sacked Mr Uzodimma as the APC's candidate for the district.

[Scrolla] Acting Police Minister Firoz Cachalia asked the Cabinet to approve Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi as the Hawks' national head on Thursday. Mkhwanazi is KwaZulu-Natal's provincial police commissioner. The statement names no successor, and Cabinet has not yet decided on the request.

[Liberian Observer] Cllr. Betty M. Lamin-Blamo, nominee for Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Liberia, has pledged to review pretrial detention cases nationwide, strengthen criminal prosecutions and pursue corruption and drug trafficking cases, disclosing that 2,848 of the 4,125 persons held in the country's prisons as of September 2026 had never been tried.