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AI and Evidence in Nigerian Courts: Can You Still Believe What You See and Hear?

A courtroom is, at its core, a place where a story is tested against proof. For most of legal history, the proof spoke for itself. A document was a document. A photograph was a photograph. A recording was a recording. Artificial intelligence has quietly dissolved that certainty. A Judge in Lagos or Abuja can now be handed a video, an audio clip or a document that looks entirely authentic and is, in fact, a fabrication produced by a machine. This article examines whether the Evidence Act 2011, as amended in 2023, is equipped to handle that possibility. It traces the statutory journey from the S…