{"id":68409,"date":"2025-06-18T13:24:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T13:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=68409"},"modified":"2025-06-18T13:24:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T13:24:23","slug":"no-bra-no-exam-policy-sparks-outrage-at-olabisi-onabanjo-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/18\/no-bra-no-exam-policy-sparks-outrage-at-olabisi-onabanjo-university\/","title":{"rendered":"No Bra, No Exam&#8221; Policy Sparks Outrage at Olabisi Onabanjo University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A viral video circulating on social media has sparked widespread outrage and debate following the enforcement of a controversial &#8220;no bra, no examination&#8221; policy at Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ogun State.<\/p>\n<p>The footage, shared widely on X (formerly Twitter), shows female students being lined up and physically inspected by university officials before being allowed into an examination hall.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, the officials appear to check whether the students are wearing bras, prompting concerns over privacy violations and harassment.<\/p>\n<p>The video has drawn mixed reactions online. While a few users defended the policy as a step towards promoting decency on campus, the overwhelming majority condemned it as invasive, humiliating, and an infringement on students\u2019 bodily autonomy and personal rights.<\/p>\n<p>Critics have questioned the university&#8217;s priorities, arguing that such measures are not only inappropriate but also divert attention from more pressing academic and infrastructural concerns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs this really what higher education has come to?\u201d one user posted. \u201cInstead of focusing on academic excellence, we\u2019re policing underwear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As of press time, the university management has not issued an official statement addressing the incident or clarifying the rationale behind the policy.<\/p>\n<p>Legal and human rights advocates are calling for an immediate investigation and for the university to be held accountable for what they describe as gender-based discrimination and abuse of power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado A viral video circulating on social media has sparked widespread outrage and debate following the enforcement of a controversial &#8220;no bra, no examination&#8221; policy at Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ogun State. The footage, shared widely on X (formerly Twitter), shows female students being lined up and physically inspected by university officials before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":68410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68411,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68409\/revisions\/68411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}