[Nigeria Health Watch] As 2025 draws to a close, this review captures the lessons of a year that exposed Nigeria's dependence on external health funding and the reforms now required. The early 2025 pause in external funding and the donor reprioritisation that followed underlined a hard truth. Nigeria's health security cannot be built on financing decisions made elsewhere. Yet the year also showed what firmer governance can achieve, including emergency domestic financing, stronger coordination through a Sector Wide Approach, and