Nigeria Entertainment News API

Get the live top entertainment headlines from Nigeria with one request to the Top Headlines endpoint of GNews API. Stories are selected by Google News rankings and returned as clean JSON.

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This request returns the current top entertainment headlines from Nigeria. The response below is live: it was fetched when this page loaded. Every parameter is described in the Top Headlines endpoint documentation.

GET https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?category=entertainment&country=ng&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=entertainment" \
  --data-urlencode "country=ng" \
  --data-urlencode "apikey=YOUR_API_KEY"

import requests

API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY"

response = requests.get(
    "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines",
    params={"category": "entertainment", "country": "ng", "apikey": API_KEY},
    timeout=10,
)
response.raise_for_status()

for article in response.json()["articles"]:
    print(article["title"])

const API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY";

const params = new URLSearchParams({
    category: "entertainment",
    country: "ng",
    apikey: API_KEY,
});

const response = await fetch(`https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?${params}`);
if (!response.ok) {
    throw new Error(`Request failed: ${response.status}`);
}

const { articles } = await response.json();
for (const article of articles) {
    console.log(article.title);
}

<?php

$apiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

$query = http_build_query([
    "category" => "entertainment",
    "country"  => "ng",
    "apikey"   => $apiKey,
]);

$response = file_get_contents("https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?" . $query);
if ($response === false) {
    throw new RuntimeException("Request failed");
}

$data = json_decode($response, true);
foreach ($data["articles"] as $article) {
    echo $article["title"] . PHP_EOL;
}

using System.Net.Http.Json;

const string ApiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

using var client = new HttpClient();

var url = $"https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?category=entertainment&country=ng&apikey={ApiKey}";
var data = await client.GetFromJsonAsync<ApiResponse>(url)
           ?? throw new InvalidOperationException("Empty response");

foreach (var article in data.Articles)
{
    Console.WriteLine(article.Title);
}

record ApiResponse(List<Article> Articles);
record Article(string Title);

200 OK · Live JSON response

{
    "totalArticles": 39348,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "57d5e86748116f99748adac07db1ff4d",
            "title": "Hilary Swank pregnant with her third child at 52",
            "description": "Actor Hilary Swank, 52, announced she is pregnant with her third child with husband Philip Schneider.",
            "content": "Hilary Swank is pregnant with her third child.\nThe actress, 52, announced the news in a clever Instagram post Oct. 14, featuring a video of her, husband Philip Schneider and their 3-year-old twins dancing in the dark with glow sticks on their bodies ... [1798 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2026/10/14/hilary-swank-pregnant-third-child-philip-schneider-kids/92255034007/",
            "image": "https://www.usatoday.com/gcdn/authoring/authoring-images/2026/10/14/USAT/92255702007-getty-images-2245741491.jpg?crop=1497,842,x555,y911&width=1497&height=842&format=pjpg&auto=webp",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T22:04:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8eec8fc7a9ec8be488bc7411d0801c60",
                "name": "USA Today",
                "url": "https://www.usatoday.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "c95b6812150b558d5519dcf6de82a1cf",
            "title": "Sylvester Stallone reveals why he can't retire yet",
            "description": "Sylvester Stallone, 80, revealed the 'embarrassing' reason he can't retire during an Oct. 13 appearance on 'Live with Kelly and Mark.'",
            "content": "Sylvester Stallone can't ride off into the sunset just yet.\nDuring an Oct. 13 appearance on \"Live with Kelly and Mark,\" the \"Rocky\" star, 80, revealed he was postponing his retirement so he could pay for his daughter Sophia's upcoming nuptials.\n\"Oh, ... [1182 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2026/10/14/sylvester-stallone-cant-retire/92253951007/",
            "image": "https://www.usatoday.com/gcdn/authoring/authoring-images/2026/10/14/USAT/92255201007-getty-images-2299597411.jpg?crop=1023,576,x0,y53&width=1023&height=576&format=pjpg&auto=webp",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T21:52:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8eec8fc7a9ec8be488bc7411d0801c60",
                "name": "USA Today",
                "url": "https://www.usatoday.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "07f5646a6aae4605bb310d5bcac61849",
            "title": "Kaley Cuoco, Tom Pelphrey welcome second baby. 'Family officially complete'",
            "description": "Kaley Cuoco and Tom Pelphrey welcomed their second baby on Oct. 12: a daughter named Philomena Carmine Bobby. See the photos",
            "content": "Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY\nUpdated Wed, October 14, 2026 at 9:51 PM UTC\n2 min read\nAdd Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.\nKaley Cuoco's family has become a party of four.\nThe \"Flight Attendant\" star, 40, and \"Task\" acto... [2954 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/kaley-cuoco-tom-pelphrey-welcome-215121611.html",
            "image": "https://s.yimg.com/lo/mysterio/api/405c7cf5c910784f99aaaa2bea78d7daf6df68d33a8f8f8151e4f92f093fc8ac/lightyear_networkapi/resizefill_w1200%3Bquality_80%3Bformat_webp/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fusa_today_entertainment_893%2F3b213f4a39cc7169a93abe153d296e59.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T21:51:21Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "99e8a2cb4638bb798cf9167e5af5b83b",
                "name": "Yahoo",
                "url": "https://www.yahoo.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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