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.
The world premiere of what’s been billed as the first photorealistic, AI-generated feature film in the Yoruba language fizzled out last week when user demand overwhelmed the ser...
Pay, a Nigerian payments and lending app, has filed to list on the New York Stock Exchange, Yinka Adegoke reported for Semafor. Earlier reports put its likely valuation at about...
“Spider-Man” actor Tobey Maguire officiated his ex-wife’s wedding on Saturday, just weeks after their divorce was finalized. Jewelry designer Jennifer Meyer married Geoffrey Ogu...
Ozoz Sokoh takes us to Flo’s Grill for authentic Nigerian comfort food.
Une vingtaine de personnes ont été tuées par des hommes armés lors de deux attaques distinctes ce week-end dans le nord-ouest et le centre du Nigeria.
Une vingtaine de personnes ont été tuées par des hommes armés lors de deux attaques distinctes ce week-end dans le nord-ouest et le centre du Nigeria.
The actor shares Asher, Caleb, Penuel, and Zoë with his wife Jessica Oyelowo
TLDR Uber shut down operations in Nigeria and Uganda on September 2, 2026, following earlier exits from Tanzania and Ivory Coast. Around 50,000 Nigerian drivers relied on the pl...
Sunday morning's matchup in London will feature a performance at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
The Department of Homeland Security is facing backlash after publicly alleging that Pennsylvania Democratic House candidate Janelle Stelson's campaign employed an undocumented i...
African governments from Nigeria to Kenya are adding fresh measures to soften a rise in fuel prices caused by the Iran war.
The absence of African languages from large language models has become a major concern for the continent’s policymakers and tech leaders.
High energy prices are among the key campaign issues ahead of January’s presidential election.
In 2014, Akon co-founded a solar program for rural Africa. It says it reached 14 countries in a year, but over 560 million in Sub-Saharan Africa lack power.
When the U.S. Department of Homeland Security publicized the arrest of a Nigerian man for indecent exposure this week, it included a political attack that's drawing complaints f...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — When the U.S. Department of Homeland Security publicized the arrest of a Nigerian man for indecent exposure this week, it included a political attack that...
The African Union is challenging the big three rating agencies’ approach to assessing African borrowing risk.
“His hands were tied to his back to ensure that he stopped the trouble,” a Nigerian official reportedly said
NewsMesh aggregates Nigeria-relevant coverage across every major beat, from politics and business to technology and sport, normalised into one structured feed.
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"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.NewsMesh aggregates Nigeria-relevant reporting from national wires, broadcasters, and major papers, normalised into one structured feed with consistent fields across every source.
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.
Yes. Append &category=politics (or business, sports, technology, health, and more) to /v1/latest?country=ng, or browse the Nigeria category pages linked above.
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.
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.
Access the full dataset programmatically with the NewsMesh API.