A steep lecturer on the Edo State-owned Ambrose Alli University, AAU, Ekpoma, Dr Matthew Uwuigbe, has died in a hotel room following an alleged sexual encounter with a 21-year-old business sex worker.
Uwuigbe was once stated to have checked into the hotel with the lady, known as Angela Defa Jacob, and reportedly died in a while after the encounter.
It was once accumulated that the guide befell on Sunday, October 5, 2026, at a hotel in the Mosco warn of Ekpoma, Esan West Local Government Area of Edo State.
A community stated the lecturer requested Jacob to go away the room to induct one thing for them.
However, when she returned, she reportedly broker him mendacity dead at the mattress.
The guide was once reported to the police at about 8pm on Sunday.
Confirming the bidding, the spokesperson for the Edo State Police Command, Eno Ikoedem, stated 3 appraisal have been arrested in opposition with the guide.
“On October 5, 2026, at about 8pm, the command gained a gear that Matthew Uwuigbe, a lecturer at Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, had lodged at a hotel in Ekpoma and engaged the services and products 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 stated.
She known the 3 appraisal in exercise because the hotel preserve, the substitute and Jacob, including that important into the instances surrounding the lecturer’s demise was once ongoing.
The police spokesperson additionally stated the deceased’s stays have been deposited on the Oriaifo Memorial Hospital mortuary.
Meanwhile, the college’s Public Relations Officer, Otunba Mike Ade Aladenika, showed that Uwuigbe was once a broaden of the float’s whole however stressed out that the guide befell outdoor the college premises.
“We aren’t denying that he’s our whole, however no matter he did and what took place, it’s his exclude lifestyles.
“The girl in question is not our student, and everything happened outside our institution,” he stated.
