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Would you like to access news/blog content published by sources located in Nigeria?
Code example
If you'd like to make a REST call, then make a following POST request:
Endpoint /api/v1/article/getArticles
Request body
{
"sourceLocationUri": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria",
"resultType": "articles",
"apiKey": "API_KEY"
}
If you'd like instead to do a GET request then call:
/api/v1/article/getArticles?sourceLocationUri=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FNigeria&resultType=articles&apiKey=API_KEY
Example of JSON response
Below is an example JSON object that you would receive as the result of the request. You can retrieve also additional properties such as concepts, categories, source details, etc. by specifying additional parameters in the request as described on the documentation page.
{
"articles": {
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"time": "11:28:09",
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"url": "https://dailypost.ng/2026/06/19/developed-countries-face-criticism-for-blocking-climate-finance/",
"title": "Developed countries face criticism for 'blocking' climate finance",
"body": "The Global Climate and Health Alliance has censured developed countries for \"blocking\" the Global Goal on Adaptation negotiations and adaptation finance meant to safeguard the lives of people worldwide.\n\nThe criticism is the crux of a statement issued Friday on the heels of the 2026 Bonn Climate Change Conference in Germany, a mid-year session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.\n\nThe health community said during this week's negotiations, developed countries seemed unable to recall their commitment to tripling climate funding by 2025, a pledge they made at COP30 in Brazil.\n\n\"There can simply be no health without finance for adaptation action,\" said Jess Beagley, Policy Lead at GCHA. \"The same applies for wider climate finance, including for mitigation or loss and damage.\"\n\nEstablished under Article 7.1 of the 2015 Paris Agreement, the GGA seeks to elevate climate adaptation to the same level of political priority and urgency as reducing greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nArticle 9, paragraph 1 of the pact asserts that developed countries shall provide financial resources to assist developing nations regarding mitigation and adaptation \"in continuation of their existing obligations.\"\n\nBeagley argues that developing countries already bearing the health shocks and wider burdens of climate impacts are incapable of executing national climate plans without public grant-based assistance.\n\n\"Developed countries have hindered implementation and blocked progress across negotiations by failing to refer to climate finance,\" the advocate protested.\n\nThis impediment, according to Beagley, is compounded by the clout of harmful polluting industries such as fossil fuels, contributing to a lack of progress on outcomes relating to reduction and science.\n\nWarning that the climate change problem cannot be resolved without a clear understanding of evidence, Dr. Nova Tebbe, a researcher, wants more power for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.\n\nThe public health policy expert called for strengthening evidence by/about developing and vulnerable countries, and \"protecting IPCC findings and recommendations from inappropriate influence.\"",
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},
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"url": "https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2026/06/19/ekitidecides-2026-police-restrict-movement-issue-advisory-to-travellers/",
"title": "#EkitiDecides 2026: Police restrict movement, issue advisory to travellers",
"body": "Ekiti Police Command said the restriction would apply to all forms of motorised transportation, including private and commercial vehicles, trucks, tricycles and motorcycles during the governorship election\n\nPolice have announced a restriction on vehicular movement across the Ekiti as part of the comprehensive security arrangements aimed at ensuring that the state's governorship elections scheduled for tomorrow, Saturday, June 20 is peaceful, orderly and violence-free.\n\n\"Travellers intending to pass through the state on election day are therefore advised to make alternative arrangements and use other routes,\" Ekiti Police Public Relations Officer, SP Sunday Abutu, disclosed this in a statement in Ado-Ekiti on Friday.\n\nThe Ekiti Police spokesperson added that the restriction would take effect from midnight (12:00 a.m) to 6:00 p.m and cover both intra-state and inter-state roads within Ekiti.\n\nHe noted that the restriction would apply to all forms of motorised transportation, including private and commercial vehicles, trucks, tricycles and motorcycles.\n\nHe however added that students and candidates participating in national structured examinations and assessments are exempted from the restriction and are allowed to proceed to their examination centres.\n\n\"Accredited officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), ad-hoc staff, journalists, election observers, medical personnel, emergency responders and other essential service providers will however be permitted to move during the restriction period, provided they carry valid identification and clearance tags.\"\n\nThe command's spokesperson added that movement of VIPs with armed escorts to polling units and collation centres would not be allowed.\n\n\"Vigilante groups, quasi-security outfits and volunteer groups are also prohibited from providing security services during the election.\n\nAbutu advised construction companies undertaking road projects in the state to suspend active construction work for the duration of the election, citing safety concerns.\n\nHe said that only personnel of recognised security agencies and organisations under the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES) would be authorised to provide security at polling units, collation centres and other election facilities.\n\nHe quoted the Commissioner of Police in charge of the Ekiti Governorship Election, CP Abayomi Shogunle, as urging registered voters to come out and exercise their civic responsibility peacefully, assuring residents of adequate security before, during and after the poll.\n\nShogunle also called on members of the public to remain law-abiding and report suspicious activities to the nearest security agency or through the police emergency line, 08062335577.",
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"url": "https://leadership.ng/drop-fuel-prices-to-reflect-lower-oil-costs-petroan-urges-refiners-importers/",
"title": "Drop Fuel Prices To Reflect Lower Oil Costs, PETROAN Urges Refiners, Importers",
"body": "The Petroleum Products Retail Outlets Owners Association of Nigeria (PETROAN) operators in the downstream petroleum sector to cut petrol pump prices to reflect the current price of crude oil after Brent crude oil slipped to about $77-$78 per barrel, saying the decline should be passed on to consumers to ease rising transportation and living costs.\n\nThe national president of PETROAN, Billy Gillis-Harry, who made this call on Friday, called on refiners, depot owners, and petroleum products importers to reflect the recent decline in\n\ninternational crude oil prices in their ex-depot and retail pump prices of petroleum products.\n\nPrince Gillis-Harry, stated that the recent drop in global crude\n\noil prices offers an opportunity for stakeholders in the downstream petroleum sector to pass the\n\nsavings on lower crude costs to Nigerian consumers.\n\nHe emphasised that market realities should be reflected in both ex-depot and retail pump prices in the interest of fairness and economic relief for the public. Recent developments in the global\n\noil market indicate that crude oil prices are experiencing a downward trend.\n\nBrent crude has fallen to approximately $77-$78 per barrel following the ceasefire agreement\n\nbetween the United States and Iran and expectations that oil exports through the Strait of\n\nHormuz will gradually normalise.\n\nMarket analysts have noted that crude oil prices are currently under downward pressure,\n\nalthough geopolitical risks remain.\n\nCurrent projections suggest that Brent crude may trade within the range of $75-$82 per barrel\n\nnext week, while West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude is expected to trade between $72-$79 per barrel.\n\nFactors contributing to the decline in crude oil prices include: Continued implementation of the U.S.-Iran peace agreement; Increased crude oil exports from the Middle East; Concerns over weaker global oil demand.\n\nWhile factors such as a breakdown in peace negotiations, fresh supply disruptions, or\n\nunexpected production cuts by OPEC and its allies could trigger upward price movements, the\n\nprevailing market outlook remains relatively stable to bearish.\n\nPrince Gillis-Harry expressed concern that, in some instances, the landing cost of imported\n\npetroleum products appears to be lower than the prices offered by domestic refiners.\n\nAccording to him, this development is surprising and underscores the need for a more\n\ncompetitive downstream petroleum market that guarantees consumers access to the most\n\naffordable products available.\n\nHe therefore called on the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory\n\nAuthority (NMDPRA) to continue issuing import licences to qualified marketers. He explained\n\nthat increased competition among suppliers would help moderate prices, discourage\n\nmonopolistic tendencies, and ensure a steady supply of petroleum products across the country.\n\nThe PETROAN President maintained that competition remains one of the most effective\n\nmechanisms for driving efficiency, reducing costs, and protecting consumers. He noted that a\n\ncompetitive market environment would encourage all market participants to review their prices\n\ndownward in line with prevailing market realities.\n\nIn a bid to further encourage competition that will benefit consumers, PETROAN also called on the group chief executive officer of NNPC Limited, Engr. Bayo Ojulari, to facilitate talks with the two Chinese firms that have expressed interest in operating the Port Harcourt and Warri\n\nRefineries. Prince Gillis-Harry stated that if these refineries are successfully revived and\n\noperated as private-sector-driven facilities, petroleum product prices are expected to decline\n\nfurther due to improved efficiency and increased domestic refining capacity.\n\nHe added that the resumption of operations at the Port Harcourt and Warri Refineries under\n\ncompetent private management would enhance supply stability, promote healthy competition,\n\nand ultimately lead to more affordable petroleum products for Nigerians.\n\nFor Nigeria, sustained moderation in crude oil prices, coupled with stable exchange rates and\n\nrefining costs, should support lower petrol prices and provide relief to consumers and businesses facing economic challenges.\n\nGillis-Harry reiterated PETROAN's commitment to advocating for a transparent, competitive, and consumer-friendly downstream petroleum sector that delivers fair pricing, energy security, and sustainable economic growth for all Nigerians.",
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"body": "It was less than 15 weeks ago when President Trump, at the height of his bravado about how the war with Iran would end, declared, \"There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER.\"\n\nWhen the text of the deal intended to wind down the conflict was finally released on Wednesday, read aloud paragraph by paragraph by a senior administration official who stopped to defend each section, it read nothing like a surrender document. Instead, the Iranians emerged from a confrontation with the world's most powerful military having not only survived but also having much to celebrate.\n\nIt starts with the resumption of Tehran's ability to reap billions of dollars in oil sales, lifting pressure on the struggling regime even as negotiators prepare to begin haggling over a far more lengthy and critical document: the one Mr Trump insisted in an interview on Sunday will arrest Iran's nuclear programme for the next 15 or 20 years.\n\nFor a president who prizes leverage above all else, that decision is just another mystery of the war. But the wording of the \"Memorandum of Understanding\" also suggests that, over time, Iran may negotiate some permanent way to exercise sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz. That seems in contradiction to Secretary of State Marco Rubio's declarations just a few weeks ago that anything other than the kind of free passage through the strait that the world knew before the war was \"not acceptable\" and \"cannot happen\".\n\nAnd the memorandum, signed on Wednesday evening by Iran's president and Mr Trump, describes a pathway in which Iran could begin receiving billions of dollars in assets that have been frozen for years. Mr Trump insists the money will only be released in return for \"good behaviour\". But it is essentially the same concession that Barack Obama made 11 years ago and that Mr Trump has savaged ever since.\n\nAs Mr Trump reminds reporters - often angrily - the United States did have many accomplishments on the battlefield: it sank Iran's less-than-impressive navy, wiped out its small air force, destroyed much of Iran's defence industrial base and demolished some of its missile emplacements and mobile launchers. But that was not Mr Trump's goal. As he said at the opening of the campaign, he sought the total destruction of the nuclear and missile programmes, the fall of the regime and, as he suggested later on, American control of the country's oil industry.\n\nIn the next few days, the details of this agreement will be picked apart. Hard-liners in Mr Trump's party have already been expressing objections. So have the Israelis, frozen out of the negotiations and fearful they are being forced by Mr Trump into a ceasefire with Hezbollah that will interfere with their ability to rip apart the terror group. Historians will grapple for years about the lessons of a conflict in which the United States spent tens of billions of dollars, with 13 Americans and more than 3,000 Iranians reported to have been killed.\n\nBut it was Mr Trump himself who offered what may be the most clear-eyed answer about why he needed to end this war so fast. He didn't want comparisons to Herbert Hoover, he told reporters at the Hotel Royal in Évian-les-Bains, on the shores of Lake Geneva, on Wednesday.\n\n\"He was always the one I didn't want to be,\" Mr Trump said of the 31st president, who presided over the market crash that ushered in the Great Depression. \"I didn't want to see an economic catastrophe.\" Later he noted that if the war continued, the world would have begun to run out of oil stockpiles.\n\nThat combination - economic chaos and disrupted oil markets - was exactly what the Iranians viewed from the opening days of the war as their most potent weapon. They executed on that vision with precision, closing the strait and blowing up petrochemical facilities, desalination plants, hotels and air bases across the Gulf. And by the president's own testimony, it worked.\n\nIf that was Phase 1 of Iran's strategy, history suggests Phase 2 may be one of delay and more delay. In past negotiations, the Iranians refined the art of arguing over every paragraph, throwing in new obstacles to inspections or reinterpreting the meaning of \"nuclear research\" to embrace continued uranium enrichment. Few were more skilled at this process, former American negotiators say, than Abbas Araghchi, the Iranian foreign minister, and a veteran of past talks.\n\nAnd Mr Trump, eager to move on, seems to be paving the way for a long, slow process. On Tuesday, he said he wasn't especially concerned with getting Iran's nuclear fuel -- now buried under the rubble of last year's American air attacks -- out of the country. On Wednesday, he acknowledged the talks would probably go beyond 60 days.\n\nIt is too early to say whether Mr Trump will ultimately be able to claim more accomplishments. If, in the next stage of negotiations, he manages to get the Iranians to ship their stockpiles of nuclear fuel out of the country (as President Obama did in 2015) and cease all enrichment activity for nearly two decades (which Mr Obama failed to accomplish), then he may be able to claim some long-term victory.\n\nIf the war turns out to have destabilised the Iranian leadership and triggered protests and an uprising, as Mr Trump called for at the beginning of the conflict, he could well claim credit.\n\nBut for now it looks like the opposite is taking place. If anything, Mr Trump has propped up the new leadership, ostensibly run by the new supreme leader, the injured and out-of-sight Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in the opening strike of the war.\n\nThe Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, which has overseen the nuclear programme for years, seems firmly in control, though a senior administration official argued to reporters several days ago that by bringing about a peace, Mr Trump is now forcing the elite military unit to face the travails of governing.\n\nSenior members of the Obama administration, having absorbed years of criticism from Mr Trump about the shortcomings and loopholes in the agreement struck in 2015, saw their moment to exact a measure of retribution.\n\n\"The only 'achievement' of the ceasefire is the likely re-opening of the Strait of Hormuz, which was open before the war started,\" former Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken wrote online on Wednesday. \"And we will apparently pay Iran to do so, in the form of waivers for the export of Iranian crude oil. Iran has now demonstrated the capacity to stop or slow the passage of oil, natural gas, fertiliser and other critical products upon which so much of the world depends.\"\n\nMr Blinken, an architect of the 2015 accord, concluded: \"Going forward, it will almost certainly find ways to collect 'fees' for safe passage that will help entrench the regime.\"\n\nWhile some Republicans expressed cautious optimism that Mr Trump's peace-through-negotiation strategy may yet work, a good number of Iran hard-liners and America First adherents could not bring themselves to repeat the talking points in support of the accord that were being emailed by members of the administration. Among the most outspoken were those protected by impending retirement.\n\n\"Reagan is rolling over in his grave,\" Senator Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican who lost a primary last month after Mr Trump targeted him for defeat, wrote on social media. He said that Iran's nuclear ambitions \"were not curbed\" and that the war had taught the Iranians that they had more leverage over the Strait of Hormuz and the world economy than they knew. Mr Cassidy termed the war \"the worst foreign policy blunder in decades\".\n\nBut the bigger risk may be this one: when Iran's leaders begin to clear the rubble left by 40 days of bombing and think about how to spend the billions in oil revenue that will soon resume, they may well question whether they had the right nuclear strategy.\n\nFor more than two decades, Iran walked right up to the edge of building a nuclear bomb but never stepped over the line, figuring that a \"threshold\" capability was all it needed to deter the United States and Israel from attacking. That enabled it to stay in the nonproliferation treaty and insist that it had only peaceful intentions, with the security of knowing that in months it could produce a weapon. The result was that it was bombed in June 2025 and attacked again in February 2026.\n\nNorth Korea, in contrast, raced for the bomb, setting off its first successful nuclear test in 2006, and now has an arsenal of 60 or more weapons, according to U.S. intelligence agencies. It has escaped no nuclear strategist that these days, Mr Trump isn't issuing threats to North Korea.\n\nOn Sunday, when Mr Trump called The Times, this reporter asked him whether Iran might now follow the North Korean model. \"He's got serious nuclear weapons,\" Mr Trump said of Kim Jong-un, whom he threatened with annihilation during the first Trump term, then met three times in a fruitless effort to convince him to disarm. \"But that should not have been allowed,\" he said, asking whether North Korea got the bomb under President Clinton or President Obama. (It made its first test under President George W. Bush.)\n\nBut Mr Trump evaded the question of whether his decision to attack Iran could ultimately drive it to follow North Korea's model. And he insisted his deal would stop Iran, saying Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should thank him for keeping Israel from nuclear annihilation.\n\n\"Whatever it takes,\" he said. \"Forty-seven years,\" he said, referring to the 1979 Iranian revolution, \"nobody was able to do it. And we did it. We did it the right way.\"\n\nHistory may prove him right, but it is far too premature to make that claim. Maybe even he knows that, based on his statements on Wednesday morning. If the accord didn't stick, he had a plan, he insisted. He would \"go back to bombing\".",
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Tell them that as a result of that, hundreds of your sons and daughters have been employed in UNN.\n\n\"Also tell them that this party is building 102 Type 2 Primary Healthcare Centres in your senatorial district.\n\n\"Tell them that the over 40km Abakpa/Penoks-Ugwogo Nike- Opi- Nsukka road is being dualised with a major investment to cut through the hills and fill the valleys to make it straighter and safer at huge costs.\n\n\"You need to tell them that the Ohebedim Aluminium Factory will be commissioned in October.\n\n\"Just tell them, just in case they have forgotten, that just a few weeks ago, I flagged off the construction of 52.2km that will traverse Nguru, Lejja, Aku, Akpakume Nze, Egede, Affa, and Eke.\n\n\"When you thumbprint the broom, tell them that just a few days ago, we flagged off the construction of Igogoro, Amachara, Ikpamodo, Ipa, Amaja road. 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With the crowd I see here today, with the who-is-who in Enugu North Zone here, it means we can almost fall into the temptation that this election is a fate accompli.\n\n\"But I warn you, what we are witnessing here today is good. Our candidate is also the champion of the interests of the masses. You know that. But the work is not done yet. So, do not go back home and sleep.\n\n\"As you leave here, you have to go door-to-door, go to all the families, the communities, the homes, kindreds and tell them where to vote,\" he charged them.\n\nThe Deputy Governor, Barr. Ifeanyi Ossai, said that the governor had already given the party's candidate a to-do list once elected into the Senate to ensure that the interest of the zone is well represented.\n\n\"In my presence, he told him to ensure that all roads in Enugu North are captured in the federal budget. He told him that there is need to elevate UNN's budget and that of the Federal Polytechnic Ohodo so that the institutions in our land will be viable. These are just a few,\" Ossai said.\n\nHe equally dismissed the propaganda that former Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi was supporting another party's candidate, saying \"This is not true because we all heard him debunk it.\"\n\nUgwuanyi, in his remark, reiterated that nothing other than voting massively for APC and Asogwa could guarantee quality representation for Enugu North.\n\nSpeaking, Asogwa, who conducted a minute of silence in honour of the late Senator Ezea, thanked the APC and the people of Enugu North for upholding equity and justice by ensuring that the senatorial seat remained in Igboeze South, promising to justify the confidence reposed in him.\n\n\"I have promised my people that I can never disappoint. There is hardly a person that has not known what I have done towards the progress of Enugu North Zone and Enugu State in general. 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