…Police arrest three
CITIZENS COMPASS— The Edo State Police Command said it has arrested three people following the death of a senior lecturer of Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Dr Matthew Uwuigbe, in a hotel in Mosco area of Ekpoma, Esan West Local Government Area of the State.
The death reportedly occurred on Sunday after the lecturer checked into the hotel with a 21-year-old commercial sex worker identified as Angela Defa Jacob.
Spokesperson for the Command, Eno Ikoedem, who confirmed the incident on Tuesday, in a statement, said the command received a report concerning the incident at about 8pm on October 5, 2026.
“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,” Ikoedem said.
Confirming Uwuigbe’s employment with the university, the institution’s Public Relations Officer, Otunba Mike Ade Aladenika, said the incident happened 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 told PM News.
Citizens Compass reports that the body of the lecturer has been deposited at the morgue.
