Polytechnic To Suspend Students With Colored Hair, Tattered Jeans, Tattoos, Others

Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State has read ‘riot act’ to students who appear indecent on its campus.

In an internal memo signed by the institution’s Deputy Registrar, Students’ Affairs, Mrs O.F. Ajayi, the school management also released sanctions for a wide range of fashion choices common amongst its students.

The school vowed to suspend students caught with coloured hair; tattered jeans; tattoos; nose, mouth, eye (extra) ring; intimate/open embrace (hugging) and ‘crazy’ hairstyles for men; earrings for men, cowries for women; among others, one semester or two semesters, depending on the offence.

It also banned pregnant students and nursing mothers from hostels and bringing babies to classrooms and hostels.