Nigerian university bans public hugging, skimpy dresses on campus, releases new dress code for staff, students
The Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Kaduna State, has introduced a new dress code for students and staff, as it prohibited various clothing items and styles, including shorts, skimpy dresses, body-hugging outfits, and transparent or see-through clothing.
Penpushing reports that the authorities made this clear in its bulletin dated June 16, 2025, emphasizing that indecent, offensive dressing and unacceptable appearance in public spaces within the campus will not be allowed henceforth.
The university in the announcement declared that defaulter (s) of the dressing code would be sanctioned according to their frequent offences, including being sent out of the classroom, library, office, clinic and others.
‘The Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Dress Code Implementation Committee, reconstituted by the Management, has revised the provisions of the ABU Dress Code that is applicable to both staff and students,” the bulletin reads.
Penpushing further reports that the policy identified 27 prohibited conducts, including plaiting or weaving hair by male students, wearing coloured eyeglasses in classrooms, not on medical grounds.
The others are wearing bathroom slippers in classrooms (not on medical grounds), wearing trousers that stop between knee and ankle, having a multi-colour braid for females, having coloured hair styling, having dreadlocks by males or females, and having a spangle hair style for males.
Penpushing also reports it equally include tattoos, piercings of body parts for lip plugs/discs, mouth plates, nose rings and eyelets, as well as wearing of ankle chains by females, wearing of long eyelashes by females.
The announcement in same vein banned wearing of Sagging/ass-down by both males and females, engaging in intimate open embrace (hugging/kissing), openly sitting on each other’s laps by opposite sex, and Unconventional wearing of face cap, among others.
Penpushing reports that the university management in the order warned that students and staff who fail to comply with the dress code would face sanctions, stressing that such acts are misconduct
“The following descriptions and elements henceforth constitute indecent and offensive dressing as well as unacceptable appearance in public spaces in the university, and are considered as acts of misconduct’, it emphasised.
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