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  • AKINYEMI SAMSON OYELERE

Indecent dressing and other antisocial acts like; drug abuse and cultism, has become a major issue of moral misconduct amongst students in Nigerian tertiary institutions. Indecent or crazy dressing, also known as dress to kill is rampant amongst students of universities, polytechnics, colleges of education and other tertiary institutions.

Not to single out a culprit, but it is mostly practised and particular to the females. This is done in the name of wanting to look sexy, scintillating and stimulating, not remembering that they ought to look decent and responsible. They go from wearing skimpy clothes to going strapless or short blouses. This is not without mindless sagging of trousers, low waist or ass down styles. This is even gender-blend as both boys and girls are guilty. Glaring cleavages are now a norm in a Nigerian campus. Let’s not get started about the amount of sleeveless dresses, also known as spaghetti or off-shoulder. This are instrumental in the negative image we brew of ourselves.

Apart from the skimpy and tight-fitting nature of these dresses, some are again transparent; revealing certain parts of the bodies that under normal dressing patterns ought to be hidden away from the glare of people. Ironically, these are the renowned modern fashion trends among students nowadays.

Nowadays, students now dress indecently for reasons such as poor parenting, peer pressure, wrong use of the Internet, fading values as well as demonic influence among others. The negative sides of indecent dressing are that many of these students become victims of rape on campus; they are lured into prostitution by peers because of the way they dress. Subsequently, they are tempted and influenced to become members of one cult group or the other and these result in poor academic performance.

In order to curb indecent dressing on Nigerian campuses, practical initiatives must be embarked upon to educate the student populace about the potential consequences associated with it. Although, the steps being taking by many tertiary institutions to reduce immoralities and indecent dressing on Nigerian campuses are highly commendable. Today, dress codes and strict rules enforcing compliance of students have been introduced in many tertiary institutions across the country.

Improper dressings of students of institution of high learning has a high tendency of impacting negatively on their academic performance as the output of male lecturers most especially can reduce when they concentrate on watching such provocative dressings during lectures. Female students on the other hand spend so much money in buying such useless dresses instead of spending them on their academic materials.

Their indecent dressing also makes them patronize discotheques, bars, brothels and hotels where they can have fun at the expense of their studies. The possibility of some male lecturers and even female lecturers falling prey to such seductive dressings which may result in sexual favours between the lecturers on one hand and students on the other hand is always high. This will surely be a hindrance to quality education; as such students will not be able to perform up to the expectation of their prospective employers and consequently lead to loss of revenue to the state.

Aside that, the poor performance of students as a result of indecent dressing can be linked to unemployment. This is so, because students who dress indecently have divided attention for their studies and are therefore unable to receive adequate practical training which is a prerequisite for employment by most companies. And because such companies are not ready to spend extra money training such partially groomed graduates, they will later find themselves joining bad gangs after their graduation. Meaning, the way you dressed is the way you’ll be addressed. Always remember the child of whom you are and let your dressing on campus show the image of good and responsible student.

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