A senior lecturer at Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma, Edo State, Dr Matthew Uwuigbe, has died after reportedly collapsing in a hotel room following a sexual encounter with a 21-year-old woman identified as Angela Defa Jacob.
The incident occurred on Sunday at a hotel in the Mosco area of Ekpoma, Esan West Local Government Area of the state.
According to reports, Uwuigbe had checked into the hotel with the woman and reportedly collapsed shortly after the encounter.
The Edo State Police Command confirmed the incident on Wednesday, saying three persons had been arrested in connection with the lecturer’s death.
The command’s spokesperson, Eno Ikoedem, said the police received a report on October 5, 2026, that the lecturer had lodged at the hotel and engaged the services of the 21-year-old woman.
She said Uwuigbe later asked the woman to get him some water, but upon her return, she found him lying motionless in the hotel room.
“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 police spokesperson disclosed that the hotel owner, manager and the woman were being held in connection with the incident as investigations continued.
She added that the deceased’s remains had been deposited at the Oriaifo Memorial Hospital mortuary.
Meanwhile, the university confirmed Uwuigbe’s employment but distanced the institution from the circumstances surrounding his death.
The university’s Public Relations Officer, Otunba Mike Ade Aladenika, said the incident occurred outside the university premises and involved people who were not connected to the institution.
“We are not denying that he was our staff member, 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.
The police are expected to establish the circumstances surrounding the lecturer’s death as investigations continue.
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