Indecent dressing among students: LASU VC tasks Provosts, Deans, others to enforce rules

Vice Chancellor, Lagos State University has decried the continuous disregard for the University’s rules and regulations on indecent dressing by students and has therefore directed Provosts, Deans, Heads of Departments and Faculty Officers to ensure compliance on dressing code within their various College/Schools/Faculties.

Consequently all lecturers are to deny any indecently dressed students from attending lectures.

Modes of dressing which constitute indecent dressing among students of Lagos State University include, 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.

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; shirts without buttons, improperly buttoned, rolling of sleeves or flying collar; Wearing of face caps or complete covering of face (very dark glasses); and Piercing of body and tattooing.

Management went further to say wearing of ear rings and necklace by male students constitute indecent dressing.

Others include Wearing of nose ring, very big dropping ear rings 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; Wearing of slippers; Wearing of lousy, unkempt, extremely bogus hair or coloured artificial hair, brightly tinted hair/eye lashes/brown, fixing of long eye lashes, artificial dreadlock; and Fixing of long nails.

The school went further to state that any student who violates the dress code in the University will be sanctioned accordingly.