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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": 1106,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "93eb3e7e9772b6014579dc634142ce93",
            "title": "44 Is the First Big Aging Cliff for Millennials",
            "description": "Elder millennials have gotten away with seeming young for a long time, but research shows that aging catches up with us at distinct moments — the first comes at 44.",
            "content": "Doing karaoke is a great way to feel your exact age, something I only recently remembered. It was two days after Halloween, and my 44th birthday party at Lion’s Roar Karaoke House in Williamsburg was already in full swing. Younger attendees sang alon... [28009 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.thecut.com/article/middle-aged-millennials-feeling-old-44-aging-cliff.html",
            "image": "https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/fee/865/85b607ca42883ac3fdca4db91c83500942-being-44-01.1x.rsocial.w1200.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-04T12:00:23Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "3948f59ed6a3523507edf63f22d879eb",
                "name": "The Cut",
                "url": "https://www.thecut.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "99759d6f77182fc9114dfc2ff429bc5e",
            "title": "Hepatitis B: What parents should know about the virus and the vaccine",
            "description": "For decades, newborns in the U.S. have been given the hepatitis B vaccine. This could change. A CDC vaccine advisory panel may vote to end that routine vaccination. Here's what parents should know.",
            "content": "For more than three decades, it has been routine to give all newborns in the U.S. the hepatitis B vaccine. That could soon change.\nAn advisory committee to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected to vote Thursday on whether to resc... [3696 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.btpm.org/2025-12-04/hepatitis-b-what-parents-should-know-about-the-virus-and-the-vaccine",
            "image": "https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/59697ef/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2121x1114+0+40/resize/1200x630!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnpr.brightspotcdn.com%2Fdims3%2Fdefault%2Fstrip%2Ffalse%2Fcrop%2F2121x1193%200%20138%2Fresize%2F2121x1193%21%2F%3Furl%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Ff9%2Fca%2F79258fa34cbcaf7a832d2d33d2d8%2Fgettyimages-1386688398.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-04T10:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "040b0fbf17bada1c047fb3a98ae75155",
                "name": "Buffalo Toronto Public Media",
                "url": "https://www.btpm.org"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "1562c5611426cdaa21bcb88b25cae391",
            "title": "Scientists capture flu viruses surfing into human cells in real time",
            "description": "Scientists have captured a never-before-seen, high-resolution look at influenza’s stealthy invasion of human cells, revealing that the cells aren’t just helpless victims. Using a groundbreaking imaging technique, researchers discovered that our cells actually reach out and “grab” the virus as it searches for the perfect entry point, surfing along the membrane.",
            "content": "A research team from Switzerland and Japan has taken an exceptionally close look at how this virus behaves. Using a microscopy approach they created themselves, the scientists can zoom in on the outer surface of human cells in a Petri dish. This setu... [2846 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251204024226.htm",
            "image": "https://www.sciencedaily.com/images/1920/cell-captures-virus.webp",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-04T08:48:02Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "81a05fd2712964dbdb32b1c6a27646fd",
                "name": "ScienceDaily",
                "url": "https://www.sciencedaily.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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