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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 API

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": 432,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "af1eb2c8f4b98d357e82345cfeefd6d3",
            "title": "Stop promoting natural birth ideology, midwife courses told",
            "description": "Despite a litany of scandals, universities are still pushing ‘normal birth’ over medical interventions. Now our investigation has prompted the regulator to act",
            "content": "After a decade of inquiries into thousands of baby deaths in Britain, 65 per cent of maternity units still need to improve safety, according to the care watchdog.\nBut a Sunday Times investigation reveals today how the crisis has deeper roots, in the ... [15511 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/article/midwife-maternity-university-education-natural-births-investigation-2dbg80l0c",
            "image": "https://www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fa709b752-9541-48d0-9d65-57b4543de0db.jpg?crop=1500%2C844%2C0%2C78&resize=1200",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-08T20:50:06Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "9e0e1039092ec85a0b069e08b66bb337",
                "name": "The Times",
                "url": "https://www.thetimes.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "4865b11c4b327fa79cf705bd7abe1778",
            "title": "Treating Dermatology Patients with Off-Label JAK Inhibitors, With Gabriela Maloney, DO",
            "description": "Maloney speaks in this interview at the SDPA Fall Conference about off-label uses of JAK inhibitors in dermatology.",
            "content": "“We're often giving [patients] immunosuppressants that require a lot of lab monitoring, a lot of drug interactions, a lot of potential side effects, and they're making people feel slightly better, but not completely clear,” Maloney explained. “And we... [2000 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.hcplive.com/view/treating-dermatology-patients-off-label-jak-inhibitors-gabriela-maloney-do",
            "image": "https://cdn.sanity.io/images/0vv8moc6/hcplive/7030d018e690bcbc876c0a03473a4f9db2a22708-1200x628.png",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-08T19:13:14Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "fdb44255685fc0ff4da1d8b3d77003bf",
                "name": "HCPLive",
                "url": "https://www.hcplive.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "bc3425878e605784a23ef1394e72e83f",
            "title": "NHS trust's lung cancer screening programme detects 180 cases",
            "description": "South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust says 70% of cancers found were at an early stage.",
            "content": "More than 180 cases of lung cancer have been detected thanks to an NHS screening programme.\nSouth Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust launched the Lung Health Check scheme in October 2022 and since then more than 35,000 people have used the ... [805 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgvkzvzzjzo",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/c1d0/live/52aa89e0-bcc6-11f0-a9bc-296ed723b1d8.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-08T17:33:41Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f331a5ed3965fb59761dfcecfc7e7a34",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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