Tallest: 2 · Year
By quarter-hour; stoppage time counts as the 45th or 90th minute.
Tallest: 1 · Minute
Nigeria's matches with known line-ups from their first recorded cap to their last.
| With them | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 57.1% |
| Without them | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Dennis Oliech | Kenya | 2 |
| George Owino | Kenya | 2 |
| Hocine Ragued | Tunisia | 2 |
| Julius Owino | Kenya | 2 |
| Karim Haggui | Tunisia | 2 |
| Khaled Korbi | Tunisia | 2 |
| Khaled Souissi | Tunisia | 2 |
| Musa Otieno | Kenya | 2 |
| Oussama Darragi | Tunisia | 2 |
| Peter Opiyo | Kenya | 2 |
Finals and qualifying campaigns alike.
| 6 Sep 2009 | v Tunisia | 2–2 | 80′ | — | Go-ahead goal | 2–1 | FIFA World Cup qualification 2009 |
| 29 May 2009 | v Republic of Ireland | 1–1 | 30′ | — | Opening goal | 1–0 | Friendly |
In a recorded line-up, on the scoresheet or booked. “—” where the line-up isn't known.
| 14 Nov 2009 | v Kenya | 3–2 | started, off 63′ | 63 | — | — | FIFA World Cup qualification 2009 |
| 11 Oct 2009 | v Mozambique | 1–0 | started, off 62′ | 62 | — | — | FIFA World Cup qualification 2009 |
| 6 Sep 2009 | v Tunisia | 2–2 | came on 57′ | 33 | 1 | Yellow | FIFA World Cup qualification 2009 |
| 20 Jun 2009 | v Tunisia | 0–0 | came on 69′ | 21 | — | — | FIFA World Cup qualification 2009 |
| 7 Jun 2009 | v Kenya | 3–0 | started, off 57′ | 57 | — | — | FIFA World Cup qualification 2009 |
| 2 Jun 2009 | v France | 1–0 | came on 89′ | 1 | — | — | Friendly |
| 29 May 2009 | v Republic of Ireland | 1–1 | started | 90 | 1 | — | Friendly |
Caps, goals and cards count what the sources record: line-ups from about 2003 (World Cups from 1970, friendlies from about 2016), and few scorers in older friendlies — so career totals run low.