President Tinubu's approximately $1 billion social-protection programme is presented as a potential human face of Nigeria's economic reset, aimed at protecting vulnerable citizens while creating pathways from hardship to self-reliance. The piece draws on Yoruba and Hausa sayings to reinforce the responsibility of supporting the poor during economic reform. It compares an economy undergoing major reform to a vehicle climbing a steep road, noting that social protection serves as the shock absorber that prevents vulnerable citizens from being broken by the journey. The article is the seventeenth part in a series on what it calls Nigeria's great reset.
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