Nigeria News, Africa’s Largest English-Language Market

Nigeria is Africa’s most populous country and the largest English-language news market on the continent. The NewsMesh Nigeria feed covers federal politics out of Abuja (the National Assembly, the presidency, INEC), state governance across the 36 states, NGX-listed earnings and CBN policy moves, the country’s heavyweight oil-and-gas sector, and the Lagos fintech ecosystem. Coverage spans the country’s major broadsheets, business press, and the national news agency. Stories are tagged with category, Nigeria country relevance, and the named officials and executives detected in the body.

Nigeria news coverage

NewsMesh aggregates Nigeria-relevant coverage across every major beat, from politics and business to technology and sport, normalised into one structured feed.

Pull Nigeria news into your app

Authenticate with your apiKey and call one endpoint (GET api.newsmesh.co/v1/latest?country=ng). The examples below are ready to copy.

curl "https://api.newsmesh.co/v1/latest?apiKey=nm_xxx&country=ng&limit=20"

Endpoints

  • GET /v1/latest: Most-recent articles, filterable by category, country, and date range.
  • GET /v1/search: Full-text search across the archive with boolean operators and source filters.
  • GET /v1/trending: Cached trending headlines, the fastest endpoint for homepage feeds.
  • GET /v1/article/{id}: Fetch a single article and its full metadata by ID.

Guides

Frequently asked questions about Nigeria news

What sources does NewsMesh cover for Nigeria?

NewsMesh aggregates Nigeria-relevant reporting from national wires, broadcasters, and major papers, normalised into one structured feed with consistent fields across every source.

Which API endpoint returns Nigeria news?

Call GET /v1/latest?country=ng. Add &category= to narrow to a single beat, &from= and &to= for a date range, or use /v1/search?q= for keyword queries.

Can I filter Nigeria news by category?

Yes. Append &category=politics (or business, sports, technology, health, and more) to /v1/latest?country=ng, or browse the Nigeria category pages linked above.

Is Nigeria news available in real time?

Yes. NewsMesh is a real-time news API: Nigeria stories are served through the live /v1/latest and /v1/trending endpoints alongside a searchable archive, each tagged with its category, the countries it's relevant to, and the named people detected in the body, so you can build a live feed without scraping HTML.

How do I access the Nigeria news feed?

Create a NewsMesh account, generate an API key, and call the endpoint above with your apiKey parameter. See the pricing page for current plans and rate limits.

Need more Nigeria articles?

Access the full dataset programmatically with the NewsMesh API.