University lecturer dies after hotel meeting with 21-year-old

By Online Editor

Ambrose Alli University senior lecturer Dr. Matthew Uwuigbe reportedly collapsed and died in a hotel room following an encounter with 21-year-old Angela Defa Jacob.

On Sunday, Uwuigbe died at an Ekpoma hotel in the Esan West Local Government Area after checking in with a woman.

Confirming the incident on Wednesday, the Edo State Police Command spokesperson, ASP Eno Ikoedem, said three persons had been arrested in connection with the incident.

“On October 5, 2026, at about 20:00 hours, 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,” she said.

Ikoedem said the hotel owner, the manager and the s*x worker were in custody while investigations continued.

She added that the lecturer’s remains had been deposited at the Oriaifo Memorial Hospital mortuary.

Meanwhile, the university’s Public Relations Officer, Otunba Ade Aladenika, confirmed that Uwuigbe was a staff member of the institution but said the incident occurred outside the university premises.

“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.