Worried Due to non-compliance with dress code among students at Lagos State University (LASU), Vice Chancellor Professor Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello instructs the president, deans, deans and faculty to enforce rules and regulations Did. on three campuses.
In a circular titled “What’s New: Obscene Dress for Students,” the VC noted the continued disregard for university rules and regulations regarding dress code.
She directed Chancellors, Deans, Department Heads, and faculty to ensure proper dress among students within various colleges, schools, and departments. gave the authority to discourage students from attending lectures if they were dressed inappropriately.
The circular, for clarity, lists the modes of dress that constitute obscene dress among LASU students.
Obscene clothing listed includes wearing obscene clothing, transparent dresses, mini and skimpy skirts/dresses, and other clothing that exposes sensitive parts of the body.
“Wearing tattered and dirty jeans with holes or displaying obscene subliminal messages. Wearing ‘baggy’, ‘saggy’, ‘yanshu’, ‘butt level’ and other obscene trousers .
“Wearing tight clothing. Wearing clothing that exposes sensitive parts of the body. Wearing shirts or tops with inscriptions that are obscene, offensive, or seductive.”
Also, university management prohibited the wearing of unbuttoned shirts or inappropriate buttons, rolling up sleeves, and flying collars. .
“Body piercings and tattoos. Male students wearing earrings and necklaces. Students wearing nose rings, very large drop earrings, and necklaces.
“Wearing distracting knock shoes like stiletto heels to lecture halls and libraries. Hair braiding, braiding, or gluing by male students.”
The dress code also bans the wearing of long fingernails and slippers, poor, unkempt and extremely fake or colored artificial hair, light colored hair/eyelashes, long eyelashes and the wearing of artificial dreadlocks. prohibited.
“It is important to note that students who violate the university dress code will be sanctioned accordingly.”