The University of acclaim, in Nigeria most liberal and cosmopolitan city, The University of Lagos is concerned about length of female skirts….
“Wearing of tight, strapless and revealing clothes whose length are above the knees are inappropriate.”
The issue is not morality but individual liberties, why should a University be able to legislate what a student wears? If the University can legislate the length of skirts, can they also determine length of female hair? or eyelashes? Can they determine length of fingernails? How does skirt length interfere with learning? is the University of Lagos implying ladies with short skirts cannot learn?
Where does the power of tax payer funded school start and stop?
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The business of an educational institution, especially one funded by the Federal Government is not to measure skirt length, (thats what the Taliban does). Federal Universities must resist the urge to go on this slippery slope of policing morality, today its skirts, tomorrow will it be speech?….
Remember “the motto of the University – IN DEED AND IN TRUTH – depicts the democratized manner in which the University conducts her affairs without recourse to gender, colour, ethnic and other demographic considerations”.
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