Benue gives two-week ultimatum to owners of unauthorised billboards

The Benue State Government Signage and Advertisement Agency, the Benue State Internal Revenue Service (BIRS) and the Urban Development Board person fixed individuals, groups and governmental parties that mounted unauthorised billboards crossed the authorities a two-week ultimatum to regularise them and wage the prescribed fees.

This was contained successful a connection connected Tuesday by the Commissioner of Information and Orientation, Chief Solomon Iorpev.

He said the structures had been enactment up without permits from the Signage and Advertisement Agency, without clearance from the Urban Development Board and without outgo of the prescribed fees.

Chief Iorpev said, “the signifier breaches the instrumentality and deprives the State of morganatic revenue, endangers nationalist safety, and undermines the orderly improvement of our towns and cities.

“We are, however, prepared to presume that galore of those liable acted retired of ignorance of the instrumentality and not retired of deliberate defiance.”

He said the agencies were giving everyone who had erected a billboard a grace play of 2 weeks, opening Tuesday, October 6, 2026.

Chief Iorpev said that with...