The management of Benue State University (BSU) has announced the immediate implementation of new dress code, placing a ban on dreadlock hairs, make-up, skirts above knees and other certain dress codes it deemed inappropriate and indecent.
The new dress code, announced in a statement on Saturday by the Task Force Committee set up by the university to implement the news measures, warned that the institution would sanction any student found violating the approved dress code.
According to the statement: “The Taskforce Committee writes to address students on the dress code and artificiality both in campus and off-campus as follows:
“BOYS: No sagging, No Make up, No dreading of hair (dada), No dyeing of hair (coloring of hair), No wearing of shorts/three quarter trousers to Lectures, No leaving of hair uncombed, No wearing of armless shirts, No wearing of earring, No plaiting of hair, No keeping of heavy beards, No wearing crazy trousers, and other indecencies.
“GIRLS: No body hug, No wearing of armless clothes, No dyeing of hair (coloring of hair), No wearing short, No exposure of sensible parts of the body, No Leg chain, No Nose ring, No putting of multiple earrings (only one earring is allowed).
“No folding of shirts on a trouser or skirt, only black and brown color attachment is allowed, No wearing of crazy trousers, No wearing of skirts above the knees, No wearing of leggings without long top (shirt) and other related indecencies.
“Students should adhere to these rules, failure to comply which shall attract sanctions from the university Management.”
Benue State University, by the new dress code, has joined other Nigerian universities who have recently commenced the implementation of new dress requirements. They include Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile Ife, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Lagos State University (LASU), University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), University of Ibadan (UI) and Abia State University (ABSU).
In Bayelsa, the State-owned Niger Delta University (NDU), Amassoma, students’ uniform has been introduced on campus.
