1 Best APIs for Business Details in Nigeria

Yelp Fusion API provides access to Yelp's global database of over 60 million business listings, user reviews, ratings, photos, and business details. Yelp is one of the most trusted business review platforms in the United States, Canada, and parts of Western Europe, making the Fusion API valuable for applications targeting those markets. However, it is important to note that Yelp has no significant business listing coverage in Nigeria or across Sub-Saharan Africa — the platform is essentially absent from the Nigerian market, and queries for Nigerian businesses return no results. For Nigerian developers, Yelp Fusion has very limited direct utility for building products serving Nigerian users. Nigerian consumers rely on Google Maps, social media recommendations, and local directories for business discovery — not Yelp. Any Nigerian application requiring business search, restaurant discovery, or review data for Nigerian users should use Google Places, Foursquare, or local Nigerian data sources instead. Where Yelp Fusion does become relevant for Nigerian developers is in building applications targeting the Nigerian diaspora in the United States and other Yelp-covered markets. There are approximately one million Nigerians living in the United States, concentrated in cities like Houston, Atlanta, New York, Washington D.C., Dallas, and Minneapolis. Applications serving this community — travel apps for Nigeria-US business travelers, diaspora community platforms, Nigerian food culture guides for US cities — can use Yelp Fusion to find African restaurants, Nigerian grocery stores, and cultural establishments in US cities where Yelp has comprehensive coverage. The Yelp Business Search endpoint finds businesses near a location matching a search term or category, with filtering by price, rating, distance, and open-now status. Business Details returns comprehensive information about a specific Yelp business — address, phone number, website, hours, rating, review count, categories, and photos. Reviews returns up to three recent user reviews for a business. The free Yelp Fusion tier provides 500 API calls per day, which is sufficient for development and low-traffic applications. There is no paid tier — Yelp Fusion is only available at the free 500 calls/day rate through the standard developer program. High-volume commercial use requires a formal partnership arrangement with Yelp. For Nigerian developers building global applications or platforms that include US market functionality alongside Nigerian functionality, Yelp Fusion can complement a primary mapping API (Google Maps or Foursquare) for the US market segment specifically.