The Super Falcons on Thursday qualified for the knock out stages of the Women's World Cup for the first time in 20 years.
The falcons have reached the knockout stages of the Women's World Cup just once before now, a quarter-final appearance in the competition in the United States in 1999.
They will confront former champions Germany in the last 16 of the 2019 Women's World Cup in Grenoble on Saturday.
The falcons qualified as one of the best losers to the round of 16 finishing third in Group A behind France and Norway.
Though, the African champions managed only 3 points out of the group after beating South Korea(2-0) and losing to both France(1-0) and Norway(3-0).
A 3-0 win for Chile over Thailand would have ended the falcons dreams of qualification but having led 2-0, the South Americans lost a penalty late on in dramatic fashion to hand the Nigerians a spot in the knockout stages.
Cameroon also qualified as one of the best third place losers, thus making it the first time two Africans will reach the knockout stages of the competition.
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