By Folayimika Akanbi
A 21-year-old commercial sex worker, Angela Defa Jacob, has been detained in the police custody after a Senior Lecturer at Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo State, Dr Matthew Uwuigbe, died in a hotel room.
The Don allegedly passed away following an alleged sexual intercourse with the sex worker.
Wind Gate News was told that the owner and manager of the hotel where the university staff was found dead are also cooling their feet in the police cell.
It was learnt that the hotel where the incident occurred is located on Mosco Area of Ekpoma, Esan West Local Government Area of the state.
The Spokesperson for the Edo State Police Command, Eno Ikoedem, who confirmed the incident, said the deceased engaged the services of the sex worker.
Ikoedem disclosed that three persons are already in the custody.
“On October 5, 2026, at about 8 pm, 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.
The corpse, she added, has been deposited at the Oriaifo Memorial Hospital mortuary.
Similarly, the university’s Public Relations Officer, Mike Ade Aladenika, confirmed to PM News that Uwuigbe is a staff member 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 told the News outlet.
