A senior lecturer at Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo State, Dr Matthew Uwuigbe, has died after reportedly collapsing in a hotel room in the Mosco area of Ekpoma, Esan West Local Government Area.
The incident occurred on Sunday after Uwuigbe reportedly checked into the hotel with a 21-year-old commercial sex worker identified as Angela Defa Jacob.
According to the Edo State Police Command, the lecturer reportedly collapsed after the sexual encounter and later died in the room.
The command’s spokesperson, Eno Ikoedem, who confirmed the incident on Wednesday, said three persons had been arrested in connection with the death.
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, manager and the woman were currently in police custody as investigations continued into the circumstances surrounding the lecturer’s death.
She added that the deceased’s remains had been deposited at the Oriaifo Memorial Hospital mortuary.
Meanwhile, the university’s Public Relations Officer, Otunba Mike Ade Aladenika, confirmed that Uwuigbe was a staff member of the institution.
However, he stressed that the incident occurred outside the university campus and was unrelated to the institution.
He said, “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.”