The Polytechnic, Ibadan, Oyo State, yesterday prohibited students from hugging, indecent dressing, driving tinted vehicles, and engaging in other immoral behaviour while on campus.
According to the institution’s management, violating the new rules will result in harsh penalties ranging from a semester suspension, rejection from classrooms or hostel for erring nursing mothers, and impounding vehicles from any student who uses a vehicle with tinted glass.
A notice of the new rules stated that some of the forbidding dressings and postures include, multi-coloured braids for females, coloured hairstyles, dreadlocks, speangled hairstyles for males, earrings for males cowries for females, the unconventional wearing of fez caps, wearing of tattered jean, micro/mini dress, crop tops/ jump tops, off shoulder clothes, backless clothes, transparent wears, bum shorts, nose, mouth extra earrings, sagging and tattoos.”
The notice reads: “Certificates of the Polytechnic, Ibadan are awarded to students who are found worthy in both academic pursuit and good character.
“Students are required to abide by the institution’s standard and code of conduct, of which indecent dressing/posture is one.
“The management, on behalf of the Governing Council has approved for implementation of the under listed sanctions for the following categories of indecent dressing/posture.”