The 21st century is categorized to be the fast-track walk away into the fourth industrial revolution characterized by digitalization. As this is becoming the threshold and the new way of things, every day transactions are now conducted on digital and electronic platforms. As a result, the law is growing in most countries of the world to suit each case where documents generated or sourced from a computer are to be presented before the court. Among the countries that recently introduced procedures for tendering documents generated from these electronic wares is Nigeria. Stifled along with the procedures are the challenges in the admissibility of computer generated evidence. Recently, most of the challenges regarding computer generated evidence in the country were waterdown in a decision, which created a paradigm in the admissibility of computer generated evidence in the country. Thus in this paper, the conditions for admissibility of computer generated evidence would be perused and the challenges in admitting such in evidence in trial would be discussed comprehensively alongside the case of A.G Federation v. Princewill Ugonna Anuebunwa.
December 5, 2025