whatsoever that a confessional statement made by an accused person constitutes potent evidence in the hands of a prosecutor for proving a charge. By s. 28(1) of the Evidence Act 2011, “[a] confession is an admission made at anytime by a person charged with a crime, stating or suggesting the inference that he committed that crime.” See BRIGHT v THE STATE [2012] 8 NWLR (PT. 1320) 297. Once an accused person makes a statement under caution, admitting the charge or creating the impression that he committed the offence with which he is charged, the statement becomes confessional. See HASSAN v STATE (2001) 7 SC (PT II) 85 at 93. It is now well ingrained in our jurisprudence that a free and voluntary confession of guilt made by an accused person, if direct and positive, is sufficient to warrant his conviction without any corroborative evidence insofar as the court has no reservations as to the truth of the confession. See YESUFU v STATE (1976) 6 SC 167 at 173; IDOWU v STATE (2000) 7 SC (PT II) 50 at 62 - 63; NSOFOR v STATE [2004] 18 NWLR (PT 905) 292; NWACHUKWU v STATE [2004] 17 NWLR (PT. 902) 262; OGOALA v STATE (1991) 3 SC 80 at 88; ADEYEMI v STATE (1991) 7 SC (PT II) 1 at 48, and AKPAN v STATE [1990] 7 NWLR (PT 160) 101. In the realm of criminal law, a confessional statement is a statement that admits of the commission of the crime charged both in fact and in law. Put differently, a confessional statement must admit of the doing of an act or the making of an omission that constitutes an offence in law, including all the ingredients of the crime or offence confessed. See NWOBE v STATE [2000] 15 WRN 133 at 141. Let us therefore condescend on the said Exhibits P6A and P6B to ascertain whether they are sufficient without more to ground the conviction of the accused person as has been forcefully urged upon me by the Prosecution. 20 | P a g e