Benue State University (BSU) has implemented a sweeping dress code, prohibiting various elements deemed “inappropriate and indecent” by the university’s management.
In a statement issued by a task force committee, students were warned of sanctions for non-compliance with the newly established rules.
The school says the guidelines, applicable to both male and female students, cover a spectrum of dressing and grooming aspects.
For male students, the ban includes sagging, makeup, dreadlocks, hair dyeing, wearing shorts or three-quarter trousers to lectures, leaving hair uncombed, wearing sleeveless shirts, wearing earrings or plaiting of hair, keeping heavy beards, and wearing of unconventional trousers, among other tendencies.
Female students are instructed against body-hugging outfits, sleeveless clothes, hair dyeing, shorts, exposure of sensitive body parts, ankle chains, nose rings, and multiple earrings.
The university’s management also emphasized the importance of adherence to these rules, cautioning that failure to comply will result in stiff sanctions.
