diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/github/cligh/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/github/cligh/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index c6ccd1588cea..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/github/cligh/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-{
-  lib,
-  fetchFromGitHub,
-  buildPythonApplication,
-  pyxdg,
-  pygithub,
-}:
-
-buildPythonApplication rec {
-  pname = "cligh";
-  version = "0.3";
-
-  doCheck = false; # no tests
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "CMB";
-    repo = "cligh";
-    rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "0d1fd78rzl2n75xpmy1gnxh1shvcs4qm0j4qqszqvfriwkg2flxn";
-  };
-
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [
-    pyxdg
-    pygithub
-  ];
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    homepage = "http://the-brannons.com/software/cligh.html";
-    description = "Simple command-line interface to the facilities of Github";
-    mainProgram = "cligh";
-    longDescription = ''
-      Cligh is a simple command-line interface to the facilities of GitHub.
-      It is written by Christopher Brannon chris@the-brannons.com. The
-      current version is 0.3, released July 23, 2016. This program is still
-      in the early stage of development. It is by no means feature-complete.
-      A friend and I consider it useful, but others may not.
-    '';
-    platforms = platforms.all;
-    license = licenses.bsd3;
-    maintainers = [ ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index bbc45db63605..e6ab220f3b13 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -490,6 +490,7 @@ mapAliases {
   clang-tools_18 = llvmPackages_18.clang-tools; # Added 2024-04-22
   clang-tools_19 = llvmPackages_19.clang-tools; # Added 2024-08-21
 
+  cligh = throw "'cligh' has been removed since it was unmaintained and its upstream deleted"; # Added 2025-05-05
   cq-editor = throw "cq-editor has been removed, as it use a dependency that was disabled since python 3.8 and was last updated in 2021"; # Added 2024-05-13
 
   ### D ###
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 8d35d3f0b7e8..3c9ac09da01e 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -12711,8 +12711,6 @@ with pkgs;
     inherit (darwin) DarwinTools;
   };
 
-  cligh = python3Packages.callPackage ../development/tools/github/cligh { };
-
   clight = callPackage ../applications/misc/clight { };
 
   clight-gui = libsForQt5.callPackage ../applications/misc/clight/clight-gui.nix { };