The super eagles of Nigeria and the 2013 African Champions over the last few days has earned the maximum possible six points against their Libya counterparts, this was a result of the two qualifier matches that was played between the two sides.

On the 13th of October 2018 ,the super eagles of Nigeria payed hist while receiving the Libyans, it was a joyous victory for Nigeria and a match that ended 4-0 in favour of the host, Nigeria forward Odion ighalo gave the host a edge by scoring a hat-trick while the fourth goal came in from Samuel Kalu.

On the 16th of October, the gehnet rohr men went to Libya to beat the host hand down in a 2-3 Victory in favour of Nigeria, with ighalo opening the net for Nigeria the favour was returned by Changchun Yatai marksman,Nigeria most talked about forward Ahmed Musa gave Nigeria the second goal when lynchpin Benali Got the score line leveled, minutes before the end of the match, odion ighalo also gave Nigeria the winning goal and the match ended 2-3 in favour of Nigeria, with this Nigeria is leading the table of group e in the afcon 2019 qualifiers.