The Taraba State University (TSU), has banned students of the institution from wearing miniskirts, face caps, dark glasses, rolled sleeves, and other indecent attire on campus including attires with obscene messages.
The ban was reiterated in a circular issued by the school’s Vice Chancellor, Professor Sunday Paul Bako specifically ordering lecturers in the university to deny students access to lecture halls due to inappropriate clothing.The Taraba State University VC also stated that the students had consistently disregarded the university’s dress code rules and regulations.
He also advised deans, department heads, and faculty officers to ensure that students dress appropriately within their respective colleges, schools, and faculties.
Wearing transparent dresses, miniskirts and skimpy dresses, and other clothes that reveal sensitive parts of the body was prohibited and highlighted in the circular not to be worn within the Taraba State University campus.Students are also prohibited from wearing tattered and dirty jeans with holes or obscene subliminal messages; shirts without buttons; shirts that are improperly buttoned; rolling of sleeves or flying collar; and wearing of face caps or complete face covering 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 “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 ear rings and necklace, including plaiting, weaving or bonding of hair, the female students were cautioned not to wear, “lousy, unkempt, extremely bogus hair or coloured artificial hair, brightly tinted hair/eye lashes/brown, fixing of long eye lashes, nails and artificial dreadlock.”
The Taraba State University Management however noted that any student found violating the dress code including miniskirts in the premises would be sanctioned accordingly.
