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Nigeria Health News API
Get the live top health headlines from Nigeria with our JSON API.
Get API key for the Nigeria Health News APIAPI 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=health&apikey=API_KEY
{
"totalArticles": 6922,
"articles": [
{
"id": "f201f90aa03cad408823e52ca4d2873f",
"title": "The people who laugh loudest in group settings are often the ones nobody has asked a real question in years",
"description": "The loudest laughter in a room is often produced by people who have stopped expecting anyone to ask them a real question. Here is what the research says about social masking, performed laughter, and the quiet loneliness of being the easy one.",
"content": "The loud laugher in any group is usually mistaken for the most socially fed person in the room. The opposite tends to be true. Performative laughter, the kind that arrives a half-beat too early and lingers a half-beat too long, is often produced by p... [10292 chars]",
"url": "https://spacedaily.com/sd-a-the-people-who-laugh-loudest-in-group-settings-are-often-the-ones-nobody-has-asked-a-real-question-in-years/",
"image": "https://spacedaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/the-people-who-laugh-loudest-in-group-se.jpg",
"publishedAt": "2026-04-26T19:07:06Z",
"lang": "en",
"source": {
"id": "e78ce7d66fa4cc7a845a221fd1505b06",
"name": "Space Daily",
"url": "https://spacedaily.com"
}
},
{
"id": "1924aaec8aaa05dc93f6d4db3d2dad74",
"title": "Doctors updated the LDL cholesterol target for optimal heart health",
"description": "Doctors are lowering LDL cholesterol levels to prevent heart attacks and reduce cardiac risks in millions of people",
"content": "Doctors in the U.S. have updated cholesterol level guidance to lower the threshold of low-density lipoprotein (LDL), often called “bad” cholesterol, that triggers that defines cardiovascular risk.\nThe revision pushes clinicians to act earlier and mor... [5517 chars]",
"url": "https://www.earth.com/news/doctors-updated-ldl-cholesterol-level-target-number-for-optimal-heart-health/",
"image": "https://cff2.earth.com/uploads/2026/04/26111751/ldl-cholesterol-levels_target-updated_heart-health_1m.jpg",
"publishedAt": "2026-04-26T18:00:00Z",
"lang": "en",
"source": {
"id": "fca72a05020e12df547eedb79c870663",
"name": "Earth.com",
"url": "https://www.earth.com"
}
},
{
"id": "c81d7032a6dc4225557cb0f7cd4a9e4a",
"title": "If You Want to Lower Cholesterol, Should You Do Weights or Cardio?",
"description": "Exercise is important for heart health. So is how you structure your workouts. Doctors are finding both strength and cardio impact HDL and LDL cholesterol levels differently.",
"content": "6 min read\nWHEN YOU SEE your doctor, they may advise movement to improve your cholesterol numbers. But what kind of exercise, exactly, should you be doing? For years, experts have pointed to cardio as the best exercise for controlling cholesterol. Th... [7600 chars]",
"url": "https://www.menshealth.com/health/a71130043/best-workout-for-cholesterol-weights-or-cardio/",
"image": "https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/gettyimages-1211970738-696027c9303ad.jpg?crop=1.00xw:0.754xh;0,0.141xh&resize=1200:*",
"publishedAt": "2026-04-26T16:30:00Z",
"lang": "en",
"source": {
"id": "19de9eac1bb976b2345a7963af425d7f",
"name": "Men's Health",
"url": "https://www.menshealth.com"
}
}
]
}