In a decisive move to uphold the dignity and values of Lagos State University (LASU), the Vice Chancellor has issued a stern directive mandating immediate enforcement of the institution’s dress code. The action follows the “continuous disregard for the University’s rules and regulations on indecent dressing by students,” as stated in a memo circulating across campus.
According to the directive, all Provosts, Deans, Heads of Departments, and Faculty Officers have been tasked with ensuring that students within their various Colleges, Schools, and Faculties adhere strictly to the dress code. More pointedly, lecturers have been instructed to deny entry into lecture halls to any student found to be indecently dressed.
To eliminate ambiguity, the university has outlined specific fashion choices now deemed unacceptable on campus. These include:
- Transparent dresses, skimpy skirts and outfits revealing sensitive body parts.
- Torn or dirty jeans with holes or bearing inappropriate or suggestive messages.
- “Baggy”, “saggy”, “yansh”, or “ass level” trousers, and other unconventional trouser styles.
- Tight-fitting clothes and apparel that accentuate or expose body parts.
- Shirts or tops displaying obscene or seductive inscriptions.
- Unbuttoned shirts, improperly buttoned attire, rolled sleeves, or raised collars.
- Face caps or full-face coverings including very dark sunglasses.
- Body piercing and tattooing.
- Male students wearing earrings or necklaces.
- Students wearing nose rings, large dangling earrings, or elaborate necklaces.
- Footwear like stiletto heels that are considered distractive in lecture halls or the library.
- Male students plaiting, weaving, or bonding their hair.
- Use of slippers on campus.
- Loud, unkempt, oversized hairstyles or brightly colored artificial hair, tinted eyelashes, and long artificial lashes.
- Long, artificial fingernails.
The university’s management emphasized: “It is important to note that any student who violates the dress code in the University will be sanctioned accordingly.”
