Indecent dressing has been banned in Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu State while new dress code for students and staff for easy identification has been introduced.
This development was disclosed by the Vice Chancellor of the University, Rev. Fr. Christian Anieke while he was addressing staff and students of the institution on Tuesday, after their return from Christmas and New Year breaks.
On the dress code, Aneke has instructed that henceforth, all students are to be dressed in their faculty uniforms with appropriate ties and shoes.
“No student is expected to wear flippers, rugged jeans, coloured hair, long fingers, face caps or artificial eye lashes,” he directed.
In reaction to the questionable dressing, Anieke expressed regrets that most students and staff were wearing t-shirts with unauthorised inscriptions, contrary to the dressing code of the institution.
The Vice Chancellor also specifically told male students to comb their hairs well or shave them, stressing that the management of the University had introduced qualitative assessments of all the teaching and non teaching staff of the university.
“Principal officers of the institutions will henceforth visit the lecture halls to assess the lectures by the academic staff while the non teaching staff will submit their roll calls at the beginning and closing of each day’s activities.
“Students who fail to attend lectures will not be allowed to sit for examinations,” Anieke warned.
Aneke also announced that the 14th Matriculation of Godfrey Okoye University Enugu will take place on January 27.
While emphasising that the students must wear decent dresses, he also stated that female matriculants would not be allowed to wear any shoe that was more than four centimetres high.
The code for the males, was not far from the typical corporate dressing as he said, they were to be in suits with university tie to march.
With a close look at the nation Nigeria and the forth coming election, he stated that young people should focus on what they could contribute to the solution of the nation’s problems and advised them to protect their Voters’ Cards and vote wisely during the elections.
