The Service Compact With All Nigerian, SERVICOM, directorate of the University of Calabar, UNICAL, has banned students and staff from wearing short skirts and gowns above the knee, crazy jeans, and sleeveless shirts on campus.
Patrick Egaga, director of the institution’s SERVICOM disclosed this in a memo on Friday.
Egaga said the directive followed the proliferation of indecent, provocative, and unofficial dressing, especially among some female students and staff of the institution.
The memo partly reads: “Specifically, short skirts or gowns, above the knee, open backs, crap tops, braless tops and gowns, spaghetti finger, sleeveless tops, handless gowns, bikinis, see-through, transparent, apparels, and revealing contours are no longer tolerated on campus.
“Others are handless gowns, bum short revealing laps, slit skirts, body hugs, v-necks exposing breasts, tubes, strip-less, rag jeans, shorts above the knee, sleeveless shirts, singlets, lingeries, sagged trousers, and others.”
According to the memo, the ban will take effect from Tuesday, May 2, and violators will be “denied effective access into any of the university facilities or be appropriately sanctioned”.
Egaga further enjoined female students and staff to imitate the dressing culture of Florence Obi, the institution’s vice-chancellor.
He also called on the male students and staff to emulate the dressing pattern of Martin Luther-Agwai and Gabriel Egbe, the varsity’s council chairman, and registrar respectively.
