An unsigned document as rightly submitted by the Appellant???s Counsel is a worthless document; worthless 17 is it that it commands no value in legal proceedings. It has no efficacy. An unsigned document is inadmissible in law and if wrongly admitted should be discountenanced because it is like no document at all. It cannot be reckoned with in deciding the fact in issue which the document purports to prove. See OMEGA BANK (NIG) PLC VS O.B.C. LTD (Supra) and ANYAOHA VS OBIAHA (Supra). The document here is the English translated version of the Appellant???s statement as recorded in Hausa language, Exhibit A1. The contention of the learned Appellant???s Counsel is that though the Appellant signed, by thumb printing the Hausa version, Exhibit A1, he did not sign Exhibit A. The law is that a confessional statement does not become inadmissible merely because it is unsigned by the accused person, the issue of admissibility being different from that of probative value to be ascribed to the statement. In CHUKWUKA OGUDO VS THE STATE (2011) 18 NWLR (pt. 1278) 1, Rhodes-Vivour JSC aptly stated the Law in the following phrase:???... Where on the other hand, the accused person says he did not sign the statement, the statement should be 18 admitted in evidence, thereafter, the question of what weight should be attached to such statement becomes an issue for the Judge to decide at the end of the trial ...??? See also YAHAYA VS THE STATE (2016) LPELR ??? 40254 (CA). ???On the criteria to ascribe weight to such an unsigned statement the law lord Rhodes-Vivour JSC in the said case gave the conditions as follows: