Worried by the non-compliance with the dress code among students in the Lagos State University (LASU), the vice-chancellor, Prof. Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello, has directed provost, deans, heads of departments and faculty officers to enforce the rules and regulations on the three campuses.
In a circular titled “Updated: Indecent dressing among students,” the VC noted the continuous disregard for the university’s rules and regulations on the dress code.
She directed the provost, deans of faculties, heads of departments, and faculty officers to ensure decent dressing among students within their various colleges, schools, and faculties. The VC also empowered LASU lecturers to stop any indecently dressed students from attending lectures.
The circular, for clarity, listed modes of dressing that constitute indecent dressing among students of LASU.
The indecent dressing listed includes indecent dressing, wearing transparent dresses, mini and skimpy skirts/dresses, and other clothes revealing sensitive parts of the body.
“Wearing tattered, dirty jeans with holes or obscene subliminal messages. Wearing “baggy”, “saggy”, “yansh”, “ass level”, and any other form of indecent trousers.
“Wearing of tight-fitting apparel; wearing clothes that reveal sensitive parts of the body. Wearing shirts and tops with obscene, obnoxious, or seductive inscriptions.’’
Also, the university management banned wearing shirts without buttons or improperly buttoned, rolling of sleeves, or flying collars. Wearing face caps or complete covering of the face (very dark glasses).
It warned against “Piercing of body and tattooing. Wearing of earrings and necklaces by male students. Wearing of nose rings, very big dropping earrings, and necklaces by students.
“Wearing of distractive knocking shoes like stiletto heels to lecture rooms and the library. Plaiting, weaving, or bonding of hair by male students.”
The dress code also banned fixing of long nails and wearing of slippers as well as wearing lousy, unkempt, extremely bogus hair or coloured artificial hair, brightly tinted hair/eyelashes, fixing of long eyelashes, and artificial dreadlocks.
“It is important to note that any student who violates the dress code in the university will be sanctioned accordingly.”