A senior lecturer with the Edo State-owned Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma, Dr. Matthew Uwuigbe, has died in a hotel room after an alleged sexual encounter with a 21-year-old commercial sex worker.
The incident happened on Sunday, October 5, 2026, at a hotel in the Mosco area of Ekpoma, Esan West Local Government Area of Edo State.
It was gathered that the lecturer had checked into the hotel with the sex worker, identified as Angela Defa Jacob, and died moments after the encounter.
A source disclosed that shortly after the romp, the deceased asked the lady to go and buy something for them, only for her to return and discover him lifeless on the bed.
The matter was reported to the police at about 8 p.m. on Sunday.
Confirming the development, the Spokesperson of the Edo State Police Command, Eno Ikoedem, said three persons have been arrested in connection with the incident.
She said: “On October 5, 2026, at about 8pm, the command received a report that Matthew Uwuigbe, a lecturer at Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, had lodged at a hotel in Ekpoma and engaged the services of a 21-year-old sex worker, Angela Defa Jacob.
“He subsequently sent the woman to purchase water for him, and upon her return, she found him lying dead in the room.”
Ikoedem said the hotel owner, the manager and the sex worker are currently in custody while investigation continues. The corpse, she added, has been deposited at the Oriaifo Memorial Hospital mortuary.
Meanwhile, the university’s Public Relations Officer, Otunba Mike Ade Aladenika, confirmed Uwuigbe’s identity as a staff of the institution, but said the incident occurred outside the campus.
“We are not denying that he is our staff, but whatever he did and what happened, it is his private life. The girl in question is not our student, and everything happened outside our institution,” he said.
