Lagos State University (LASU) Dress Code for Students: What Constitutes Indecent Dressing

 

The management of Lagos State University (LASU) has issued a reminder to students about its dress code, outlining what constitutes indecent dressing on all its campuses (Ojo, Ikeja, Epe, and Badagry) and warning of sanctions for violations. The university has observed that some students violate these rules, and staff members (teaching and non-teaching) have been tolerating these acts. Full enforcement of the university's dress code has commenced.

Directives on Indecent Dressing

The Vice-Chancellor has issued the following directives to address the continuous disregard for the dress code:

▪️ Provosts, Deans, Heads of Departments, and Faculty Officers should ensure decent dressing among students within their various Colleges/Schools/Faculties.

▪️ All lecturers are mandated to deny any indecently dressed students from attending lectures.

What Constitutes Indecent Dressing at LASU

The following modes of dressing are considered inappropriate and will attract sanctions from the University:

▪️ Revealing Attire: Wearing transparent dresses, mini and skimpy skirts/dresses, and other clothes revealing sensitive parts of the body.

▪️ Tattered/Obscene Clothing: Wearing tattered, dirty jeans with holes or obscene subliminal messages.

▪️ Indecent Trousers: Wearing “baggy”, “saggy”, “yansh”, “ass level”, and any other form of indecent trousers.

▪️ Tight-fitting Apparels: Wearing tight-fitting apparels or clothes that reveal sensitive parts of the body.

▪️ Obscene Inscriptions: Wearing shirts and tops with obscene, obnoxious, or seductive inscriptions.

▪️ Improperly Worn Shirts: Wearing shirts without buttons, improperly buttoned, with rolled sleeves, or flying collars.

▪️ Head/Face Coverings: Wearing face caps or completely covering the face (e.g., very dark glasses).

▪️ Body Piercing/Tattooing: Piercing of the body and tattooing.

▪️ Male Accessories: Wearing earrings and necklaces by male students.

▪️ Excessive Female Accessories: Wearing nose rings, very large dangling earrings, and necklaces by students.

▪️ Distracting Footwear: Wearing distracting, noisy shoes like stiletto heels to lecture rooms and the Library.

▪️ Male Hairstyles: Plaiting, weaving, or bonding of hair by male students.

▪️ Slippers: Wearing slippers.

▪️ Unkempt/Artificial Hair: Wearing loud, unkempt, extremely voluminous hair, colored artificial hair, brightly tinted hair/eyelashes/brows, fixing long eyelashes, or artificial dreadlocks.

▪️ Long Nails: Fixing long nails.

Consequences of Violation

Any student found violating the dress code will be sanctioned accordingly and made to face the students’ Disciplinary Committee.