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The administration of Benue State University (BSU) has introduced a ban on specific dress codes, including dreadlock hairstyles, makeup, skirts above the knees, and other attire considered inappropriate and indecent.
In a statement released on Saturday, January 13, the university’s task force committee emphasized that any student found violating the approved dress code would face sanctions from the institution.
The statement outlines the dress code regulations for both male and female students. For boys, prohibitions include sagging, makeup, dreadlocks, hair dyeing, wearing shorts or three-quarter trousers to lectures, leaving hair uncombed, armless shirts, earrings, plaiting of hair, keeping heavy beards, and wearing unconventional trousers, among other indecencies.
For girls, the restrictions include body-hugging clothes, armless attire, hair dyeing, wearing shorts, exposure of sensible body parts, leg chains, nose rings, multiple earrings (only one earring allowed), folding of shirts on trousers or skirts, limited color attachments, wearing unconventional trousers, skirts above the knees, leggings without a long top (shirt), and other related indecencies.
The statement concludes with a directive for students to adhere to these rules, emphasizing that failure to comply will result in sanctions imposed by the university management.
