{"id":72722,"date":"2025-08-11T08:46:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T08:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72722"},"modified":"2025-08-11T08:46:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T08:46:01","slug":"outdoor-advertising-faces-uncertainty-as-fcta-halts-billboard-installations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/11\/outdoor-advertising-faces-uncertainty-as-fcta-halts-billboard-installations\/","title":{"rendered":"Outdoor Advertising Faces Uncertainty as FCTA Halts Billboard Installations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Abuja\u2019s outdoor advertising industry is facing fresh uncertainty after the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), through its Department of Outdoor Advertisement and Signage (DOAS), issued a \u201cStop Work\u201d order on all ongoing billboard installations flagged as illegal or misaligned under the city\u2019s Development Control manual.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The directive, which applies to new installations, follows a DOAS-led review and realignment exercise aimed at ensuring compliance with structural and spatial standards.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Only projects that meet the FCTA\u2019s technical specifications will be allowed to proceed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While some industry stakeholders acknowledge the importance of regulation, they warn that the blanket nature of the order could severely disrupt a multi-billion-naira sector, threatening as many as 5,000 direct and indirect jobs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One Lagos-based advertising firm likened the move to past crackdowns that led to significant financial losses and, in some cases, personal harm when billboards were dismantled without notice.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>President of the Out of Home Advertising Association of Nigeria (OAAN), urged DOAS to enforce the rules with fairness, distinguishing between compliant and non-compliant operators.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He also called on practitioners to ensure full regulatory compliance, stressing that legitimate businesses must be protected from undue disruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith &nbsp; Abuja\u2019s outdoor advertising industry is facing fresh uncertainty after the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), through its Department of Outdoor Advertisement and Signage (DOAS), issued a \u201cStop Work\u201d order on all ongoing billboard installations flagged as illegal or misaligned under the city\u2019s Development Control manual. &nbsp; The directive, which applies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":72723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72722","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72724,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72722\/revisions\/72724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}