Tallest: 2 · Year
By quarter-hour; stoppage time counts as the 45th or 90th minute.
Tallest: 3 · Minute
Nigeria's matches with known line-ups from their first recorded cap to their last.
| With them | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0% |
| Without them | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Alexandros Tziolis | Greece | 1 |
| Alexandros Tzorvas | Greece | 1 |
| Ángel Di María | Argentina | 1 |
| Avraam Papadopoulos | Greece | 1 |
| Carlos Tevez | Argentina | 1 |
| Cho Yong-Hyung | South Korea | 1 |
| Diego Milito | Argentina | 1 |
| Dimitris Salpingidis | Greece | 1 |
| Du-Ri Cha | South Korea | 1 |
| Gabriel Heinze | Argentina | 1 |
| Sudan | 2 | 1 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1 |
| Mali | 1 | 1 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1 |
Finals and qualifying campaigns alike.
| 22 Jun 2010 | v South Korea | 2–2 | 69′ | pen | Equaliser | 2–2 | FIFA World Cup 2010 · Group stage |
| 9 Oct 2004 | v Gabon | 1–1 | 50′ | — | Equaliser | 1–1 | FIFA World Cup qualification 2004 |
| 5 Sep 2004 | v Zimbabwe | 3–0 | 48′ | pen | Extended lead | 3–0 | FIFA World Cup qualification 2004 |
| 9 Feb 2002 | v Mali | 1–0 | 29′ | — | Winning goal | 1–0 | African Cup of Nations 2002 · Third-place play-off |
| 1 Jul 2001 | v Sudan | 4–0 | 87′ | — | Extended lead | 4–0 | FIFA World Cup qualification 2001 |
| 1 Jul 2001 | v Sudan | 4–0 | 47′ | — | Extended lead | 2–0 | FIFA World Cup qualification 2001 |
In a recorded line-up, on the scoresheet or booked. “—” where the line-up isn't known.
| 22 Jun 2010 | v South Korea | 2–2 | started, off 70′ | 70 | 1 | — | FIFA World Cup 2010 · Group stage |
| 17 Jun 2010 | v Greece | 1–2 | started | 90 | — | — | FIFA World Cup 2010 · Group stage |
| 12 Jun 2010 | v Argentina | 0–1 | started | 90 | — | — | FIFA World Cup 2010 · Group stage |
| 9 Oct 2004 | v Gabon | 1–1 | — | — | 1 | — | FIFA World Cup qualification 2004 |
| 5 Sep 2004 | v Zimbabwe | 3–0 | — | — | 1 | — | FIFA World Cup qualification 2004 |
| 9 Feb 2002 | v Mali | 1–0 | — | — | 1 | — | African Cup of Nations 2002 · Third-place play-off |
| 1 Jul 2001 | v Sudan | 4–0 | — | — | 2 | — | FIFA World Cup qualification 2001 |
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.