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Nigeria Health News API

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

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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=health&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 2943,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "f69d5e6bd8e7eb9373c63289bb9dbf93",
            "title": "Strenuous activities after CS can trigger complications, gynaecologists tell women",
            "description": "Maternal health experts have warned that infections, diabetes, obesity, poor surgical technique, and sustained coughing can cause wound breakdown after caesarean section, urging women to keep incision sites clean, avoid strenuous activities, and report warning signs immediately.",
            "content": "Maternal health experts have warned that infections, diabetes, obesity, poor surgical technique, and sustained coughing can cause wound breakdown after caesarean section, urging women to keep incision sites clean, avoid strenuous activities, and repo... [7657 chars]",
            "url": "https://healthwise.punchng.com/strenuous-activities-after-cs-can-trigger-complications-gynaecologists-tell-women/",
            "image": "https://healthwise.punchng.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/C-seci.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-17T05:43:29Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "3e5295fb7bff6fa62415109ac7a9387a",
                "name": "Punch Newspapers",
                "url": "https://healthwise.punchng.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "f2a67d304c33f994b59977dadd2d159f",
            "title": "Singapore researchers combines climate and virus surveillance to predict dengue outbreak risk two months in advance",
            "description": "By combining climate information with disease surveillance, advanced modelling and high performance computing, researchers can better understand how climate variability influences dengue dynamics",
            "content": "The study, led by Emilie Finch (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) and Rachel Lowe (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, and Visiting Professor at NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health) and developed in collaboration with Singapore’s Nat... [3920 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.biospectrumasia.com/news/30/27364/singapore-researchers-combines-climate-and-virus-surveillance-to-predict-dengue-outbreak-risk-two-months-in-advance.html",
            "image": "https://www.biospectrumasia.com/uploads/articles/11880-27364.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-17T05:02:55Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "719e0f54eb58e3d44e1799f813f1c8a2",
                "name": "BioSpectrum Asia",
                "url": "https://www.biospectrumasia.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "32fda935d091ea3fa1762e2333d002ce",
            "title": "Mapping the neural circuits of bipolar disorder before symptoms strike",
            "description": "Bipolar disorder: Reading the neural circuit before the clinical storm arrives",
            "content": "Mary L. Phillips, MD, MD (Cantab), University of Pittsburgh, USA.\nDr. Mary Phillips and her research team.\nMary L. Phillips: Understanding how the brain regulates itself via the study of neural networks underlying emotional regulation\nBipolar disorde... [10309 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.einpresswire.com/article/899030088/mapping-the-neural-circuits-of-bipolar-disorder-before-symptoms-strike",
            "image": "https://img.einnews.com/large/1069782/mary-l-phillips-md-md-canta.jpeg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-17T05:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "ee97d126e3c1268a87082bb81692581b",
                "name": "EIN Presswire",
                "url": "https://www.einpresswire.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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