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  Court of Appeal (Awka Division)

  Judgment date

  27 May 2022

  Summary of the case Uchenna Okereke v. The State (2022), detailing legal principles on confessional statements, evidence standards, and homicide.

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• ENDURANCE MATTHEW V. THE STATE (2018)→

  Court

  Supreme Court of Nigeria

  Judgment date

  26 January 2018

  Supreme Court of Nigeria decision affirming Endurance Matthew’s murder conviction for drowning her one-month-old baby in a well.

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