About REMOP

The Regulators Monitoring Programme (REMOP) is conceived as a media initiative geared at following and reporting activities of government agencies, ministries and institutions that have the responsibility to perform oversight functions on particular sectors and or issues. REMOP is founded on the hypothesis that the failure or success of any sector depends on the vigilance of the regulator in charge.

The pilot phase of the programme, which focuses on basic education and electricity through the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) and the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), is implemented with support from the MacArthur Foundation. The argument here is that the status of basic education and electricity in the country would improve if the regulators are better monitored and made to be proactive, transparent and accountable in the discharge of their oversight functions.

Activities lined up for the pilot include; a three-month monitoring of twelve newspapers, the publication of status and annual reports on UBEC and NERC, stakeholders’ meetings, capacity development activities for reporters and students of journalism, investigative reporting projects and social media campaign. The plan is to eventually extend REMOP to other major regulatory establishments in the country.