Rivers Varsity Bans Indecent Dressing On Campus

The Rivers State University in Port Harcourt on Friday prohibited some indecent dressing by students on its campus with immediate effect.

Indecent Dressing Banned On Campus By Rivers Varsity

Registrar of the university, Sydney Enyindah disclosed this in an internal memo.

The items Enyindah listed as indecent on campus, include the wearing of gowns with tiny shoulder straps (spaghetti gowns) short skirts, bum shorts, blouses that expose the navel (belly button) or breast, leg chains and wearing of long eyelashes.

Others are tattoos, nose rings by both sexes of students, earrings by male students, tinting of hair in different colours, sagging of trousers, wearing of torn jean trousers and bathroom slippers.

According to the registrar,
The Senate of the university decided to ban indecent dressing on campus at its meeting on September 29.

“I am directed to inform you that the Senate has banned indecent dressing by students on campus with immediate effect. I am further directed to inform you that this ban is a sequel to a memo presented by the Committee of Provost and Deans and considered by the Senate at its 291 Regular Meeting held on Thursday, September 29, 2022,” Enyindah said.

“Students are hereby directed to take note and comply accordingly as enforcement of the directive will begin immediately,” he said.

The memo did not specifically state the reason for the ban on indecent dressing on campus, recall that some lecturers of the university had in August, used scissors on a female student over dress code.

The incident was said to have taken place at the Faculty of Law.

In a video, the lecturers, who were identified as Blessing Timothy (female) and Melford Itari (male), were seen forcibly trying to cut the hair of the female student, identified simply as Princess Amadi.

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