Nigeria Nation News API

Get the live top nation 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 nation 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=nation&country=ng&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=nation" \
  --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": "nation", "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: "nation",
    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" => "nation",
    "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=nation&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": 52394,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "6dc37552e4e847dcaea2d00ec6c024be",
            "title": "MSF treats 87,000 malnourished Katsina children in 8 months",
            "description": "Médecins Sans Frontières treated over 87,000 children for acute malnutrition in Katsina State between January and August 2026, a new report says.",
            "content": "Médecins Sans Frontières, also known as Doctors Without Borders, treated more than 87,000 children for acute malnutrition in Katsina State between January and August 2026, warning that the figure remained alarmingly high despite a slight decline from... [5965 chars]",
            "url": "https://punchng.com/msf-treats-87000-malnourished-katsina-children-in-eight-months/",
            "image": "https://cdn.punchng.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/14032654/images-67_1791944814.webp",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T21:55:17Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "2881b10152726230ad56a8b1c0fa1653",
                "name": "Punch Newspapers",
                "url": "https://punchng.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "8d5457d64a13f657180d8760da72b6e6",
            "title": "Atiku faults Tinubu's expanded campaign council, use of Presidential Villa",
            "description": "Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has criticised President Bola Tinubu's expanded campaign council and questioned the use of the Presidential Villa for its inauguration.",
            "content": "Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has criticised President Bola Tinubu over the expanded All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, accusing him of assembling politicians to shield his administration from criticism over economi... [3818 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/917133-atiku-faults-tinubus-expanded-campaign-council-use-of-presidential-villa.html",
            "image": "https://media.premiumtimesng.com/wp-content/files/2026/08/HPxiYyGXgAI09Yu-e1787697045255.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T19:19:10Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "6108fa5da3e080a654c1f29423e1be1f",
                "name": "Premium Times Nigeria",
                "url": "https://www.premiumtimesng.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "52fb9f1d283e6238136295478eed85ca",
            "title": "Over 87,000 children treated for malnutrition in Katsina in eight months - MSF",
            "description": "More than 87,000 children received outpatient treatment for acute malnutrition in Katsina between January and August 2026, according to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).",
            "content": "More than 87,000 children received outpatient treatment for acute malnutrition at four therapeutic feeding centres run by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Katsina State between January and August.\nThe number is lower than the over 95,000 treated dur... [6136 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/nwest/917123-over-87000-children-treated-for-malnutrition-in-katsina-in-eight-months-msf.html",
            "image": "https://media.premiumtimesng.com/wp-content/files/2026/10/0W7A6549-scaled.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T19:03:01Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "6108fa5da3e080a654c1f29423e1be1f",
                "name": "Premium Times Nigeria",
                "url": "https://www.premiumtimesng.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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