The management of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Osun State, has clarified that the dress code document currently circulating on social media has not been finalised and approved by the university’s governing council.
Speaking with PREMIUM TIMES on Thursday, the university’s spokesperson, Abiodun Olarewaju, confirmed that a dress code is being drafted but is still undergoing review. A copy of the dress code being circulated on social media showed that the university plans to ban heavy make-up, dreadlocks, nose rings, coloured hairstyles and hair braiding for male students, among others.
The university is also proposing the rustication of students who violate the rule for one or two semesters, depending on the offence. Other offences listed in the draft seen by this newspaper include: “Sexually Provocative Dresses, Backless Clothes, Transparent Wears, Off-shoulder Clothes, Bomb Shorts, Tattered Jeans, Faring for Male/Cowries for Female, Micro/Mini/Skimpy Dress, and Sagging for Male/Female, Hair Braiding for Male, Nose, Mouth, Eye, Extra Rings, Unconventional wearing of face cap, Tattoo/Indelible markings for male, Crop/Jump Tops, Multi-coloured braid for Female, Haircuts with inscriptions, T-shirts with obscene inscriptions depicting immorality, and hooliganism.”
Others are: Coloured Hair Styles, Hair Braiding for Male, Spangled Hair Style for Male, Unwelcome touching, kissing and hugging of the opposite sex. The document, which was initially seen, read that the university council had approved the decision. Although unsigned.
However, the university said the copy being circulated has not been finalised and adopted by the university council. “So, we have not finalised so many things there, but some people just smuggle it out to alert the people,” Mr Olarewaju told our reporter via telephone. He said the university is still working on some ‘finishing touches’ to the dress code before subsequent approval by the university management and the council.
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