“When I arrived at the entrance, she checked my ID and my course form, inspected my photographs, and asked to see my face. I refused to take off my veil in the presence of the men around, but before I could say anything further, she yanked off my niqab,” Bintu*, a biology student at the University of Ilorin in Nigeria, tells The New Arab. Her experience is one being faced by a number of Nigerian women in the country, as their universities begin to pressurise them into removing their head and face coverings. “It was so unexpected,” Bintu adds. “I felt so sad and was worried about who had seen m…

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