CERTIFICATION OF A PUBLIC DOCUMENT

It is now common knowledge to legal practitioners that a public document must be certified before it is tendered in court. Else, it would be seen to be admissible in court as it is not in its admissible form.

Thus; for a public document to be admissible, it must be certified by the appropriate authorities. Certification of a document isn't the signing or stamping of it. It must not be signed in the same qay as the original. It is not to be signed at all. It is the certification by the appropriate officer that makes the document authentic. See. AHMED V. C.B.N (2015) ALL FWLR (pt. 803) page 1087 at 1826,para E_F.