The Vice Chancellor of Lagos State University, Professor Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello, has instructed lecturers in the institution to deny entry to students dressed indecently.
The VC, in a circular, noted that the students had continuously disregarded the institution’s rules and regulations on dress code
She also called on all provosts, deans, heads of departments, and faculty officers to ensure students dress decently within their various colleges, schools, and faculties.
The dress code given in the circular said students should refrain from wearing transparent dresses, mini and skimpy dresses, and other clothes revealing sensitive parts of the body.
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The students are also prohibited from wearing tattered and dirty jeans with holes or obscene subliminal messages; wearing shirts without buttons; improperly buttoned; rolling of sleeves or flying collars and wearing of face caps or complete covering of face with very dark glasses.
Others include, “Wearing of tight-fitting apparels; wearing clothes that reveal sensitive parts of the body; wearing shirts and tops with obscene, obnoxious or seductive inscription; wearing face caps or complete covering of the face (very dark glasses), wearing “baggy, saggy or ass level clothes and any other form of indecent trousers and piercing of body and tattooing.”
While the male students were barred from wearing earrings and necklaces, including plaiting, weaving, or bonding of hair.
Female students were also cautioned against, “lousy, unkempt, extremely bogus hair or colored artificial hair, brightly tinted hair/eyelashes/brown, fixing of long eyelashes, nails, and artificial dreadlock.”
The university management however noted that any student found violating the dress code on the premises would be sanctioned accordingly.
