The Rivers State University (RSU), Port Harcourt, has banned its students from tattooing their bodies and wearing “indecent” clothes on campus with immediate effect.
The ban is written in a memo that the school’s registrar, Sydney Enyindah, signed on Friday and sent to all staff.
Mr Enyindah listed items considered indecent on campus including the wearing of gowns with tiny shoulder straps (spaghetti gown), short skirts, bum shorts, blouses that expose the navel (bellybutton) or breasts, leg chains, and long eyelashes.
Also banned are tattoos, nose rings, earrings by male students, tinting hair in different colours, sagging trousers, torn jeans and bathroom slippers.
The registrar said the university’s senate took the decision to ban indecent dressing on campus at its meeting of September 29.
“I’m telling students to pay attention and do what I say, because the rule will go into effect right away,” he said.
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