FCE ZARIA Management Bans Students From Plaiting Hairs, Weaving, Dreadlocks, Using hand bands and Others

The Management of the Federal College of Education, Zaria, Kaduna State, has banned male students from plaiting and weaving their hairs with immediate effect.

This development was made known through a bulletin with the reference number FCEZ/ADMIN/194/VOL/1438 released by the school authority on Wednesday 17th August 2022 where the  school gave an update regarding the banned dresses and dressing in the college.

Students have been prohibited from wearing bathroom slippers, transparent and see through dresses to the classroom. Hand bands, Artificial eye lashes, dreadlocks, piercing of the nose were also banned with immediate effect.

The school stated that the prohibited dressing and dress is applicable to both staff and students so that the staff would be worthy of emulation to the students.

Among other dresses and dressing that were banned in the college are as listed below:

• Short and skimpy dresses eg body hugs show me-your chest spaghetti wears and dresses exposing sensitive parts

• Tight shorts and skirts that are above the knees (except for sporting purposes)

• Transparent and see-through dresses.

• Tight fittings en Jeans, skirts hip star, patra, lycra etc that reveal the contour of the body

• Under clothing, such as singlet worn publicly.

• Unkept appearances such as bushy hair and beards.

• Dressing that make it impossible to wear laboratory coats during practical, or participate actively in practical

• Long and tight starts which are slit in front or at the sides which reveal sensitive parts as the wearer moves on

• Shirts without buttons or not properly buttoned leaving the wearer bare chested.

• Plaiting or weaving of hair by male students

• Wearing of eyeglasses in the classrooms (except on medical ground)

• Wearing of bathroom slippers to classroom (except on medical ground)

• Wearing of trousers that stop between knee and ankle

• Wearing of coloured spray hate or coloured wigs

• Artificial long eyelashes

• Artificial long nails

• Dreadlocks (not natural)

• Wearing bangles, hand bands (with no religious attachment by men)

• Piercing of the nose

• Multiple piercing of the ears

• Wearing of earrings by male students

• Wearing of leg chains

• Wearing tattered trousers called crazy

• Wearing of splints/T-shirts with obscene pictures of captions

• Wearing of silver ornaments on the tongue or tooth

• Wearing of necklaces/chains by males

• Wearing of coloured hair, weave-on/attachments

The school management added that Any other dressing considered inappropriate to the ethics of teaching profession in the College is prohibited and any defaulter student would be punished in accordance to the school law.

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