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Nigeria Nation News API

Get the live top nation headlines from Nigeria with our JSON API.

Get API key for the Nigeria Nation News API

API Demonstration

This example demonstrates the HTTP request to make and the JSON response you will receive when you use the news api to get the top headlines from Nigeria.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=ng&category=nation&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 22976,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "431dfa439c9b5e6688686cdc5322ca01",
            "title": "Nigeria’s President Tinubu meets royals in UK state visit",
            "description": "With trade between the two countries at a record high, Charles is using the visit to highlight the pair’s deep ties.",
            "content": "The UK’s King Charles III has welcomed Nigerian President Bola Tinubu at Windsor Castle in the first state visit by the leader of Africa’s most populous nation in nearly four decades.\nMore than 1,000 soldiers were out in force on Wednesday for the di... [2392 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/18/nigerias-president-tinubu-meets-royals-in-historic-uk-state-visit",
            "image": "https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/afp_69baf8fdaba0-1773861117.jpg?resize=1920%2C1440",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-18T23:20:58Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "7530d90c9af769eda4cb548f32ed381d",
                "name": "Al Jazeera",
                "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "72fb30c6632683acdb45a97e4c26da82",
            "title": "Still on Dele Momodu by Chief Femi Fani",
            "description": "The Nation Newspaper Still on Dele Momodu by Chief Femi Fani-Kayode",
            "content": "I saw Dele Momodu’s response to my article on him and was amused.\nI tried to be polite & restrained in that write up & I didn’t realise that it would hurt him so deeply. Yet for that I offer no apology.\nI said he sounded tired & worne in his intervie... [3786 chars]",
            "url": "https://thenationonlineng.net/still-on-dele-momodu-by-chief-femi-fani-kayode/",
            "image": "https://cdn.thenationonlineng.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/17032503/Fani-Kayode-fires-back-at-Dele-Momodu.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-18T21:55:34Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "7eef5661f7420d5f50a133da8d8590e9",
                "name": "The Nation Newspaper",
                "url": "https://thenationonlineng.net"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "9ec3b2828c37ef42d5966d3748027926",
            "title": "2027: Your glory days over when Tinubu wins - Fani-Kayode hits Dele Momodu",
            "description": "The Nigerian Ambassador to Germany, Femi Fani-Kayode, has said that when President Bola Tinubu wins in 2027, a chieftain of the African Democratic",
            "content": "The Nigerian Ambassador to Germany, Femi Fani-Kayode, has said that when President Bola Tinubu wins in 2027, a chieftain of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Dele Momodu, would crawl back into the hole he came from.\nFani-Kayode made the remark w... [1581 chars]",
            "url": "https://dailypost.ng/2026/03/18/2027-your-glory-days-over-when-tinubu-wins-fani-kayode-hits-dele-momodu/",
            "image": "https://dailypost.ng/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Fani-Kayode-1.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-18T20:34:07Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "54ac5a1a59f8cf152950ca759a31bc8c",
                "name": "Daily Post Nigeria",
                "url": "https://dailypost.ng"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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