AN APPRAISAL OF CERTIFICATION AS A LEGAL CHALLENGE ON ADMISSIBILITY OF COMPUTER GENERATED EVIDENCE IN NIGERIA

A veritable condition that must be satisfied for the admissibility of computer generated piece of evidence under the Evidence Act 2011 in Nigeria is certification. However. inadequacy of legal literature on this assumed-to-be-known subject of certification of computer generated documents in law now constitutes a clog on the wheel of admissibility of such documents. This article is therefore an attempt to unravel the intricate misgivings and their practical application to the relevant provisions of the Evidence Act 2011 as it relates to certification of computer generated documents. In order to achieve the objective of its research the paper resorted to both primary and secondary sources of law. This paper showed in its findings that the improper or inadequate certification by the appropriate officer as envisaged by the Evidence Act 2011 can form the foundation for rejection of such piece of computer generated evidence.