Taraba State University Bans Miniskirts, Face Caps, Others

The Management of the Taraba State University (TSU), has prohibited the wearing of miniskirts, face caps, shirts with rolled sleeves, and others, on campus, labelling them indecent attires.

This was stated in a circular issued by the school’s Vice Chancellor, Professor Sunday Paul Bako, ordering lecturers in the institution to start denying students access to lecture halls due to inappropriate clothing.

The 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.

Henceforth, wearing transparent dresses, mini and skimpy dresses, and other clothes that reveal sensitive parts of the body are prohibited and were highlighted in the circular.

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.”

Male students were barred from wearing earrings and necklaces, including plaiting, weaving or bonding of hair.  Female students were cautioned not to wear, “lousy, unkempt, extremely bogus hair or coloured artificial hair, brightly tinted hair/eyelashes/brown, fixing of long eyelashes, nails and artificial dreadlock.”

Monitoring reactions from social media, while a few people applauded the ban as necessary, others chastised the government for focusing on the wrong things, as our educational institutions still languished behind their peers globally.