Ahead of the Cup of Nations u20, which will be played in Cote d’Ivoire from April 26 to May 18, 2025. According to Team Administrator, Aliyu Lawal Ibrahim, The Flying Eagles’ Head Coach Aliyu Zubairu has called 30 players to camp in Abuja to select the best players to represent Nigeria as the Nigerian U-20 are going to play a doubles friendly match against Egyptian u20 on February 25 and 27.

The seven-time AFCON winners in 1983, 1985, 1987, 1989, 2005, 2011, and 2015, and two FIFA World Cup runners, Saudi Arabia 89 against Portugal and the Netherlands 2005 against Argentina, will clash with their Egyptian counterparts in Cairo. Both countries met six times. They both won two matches each and drew two times.

The players in the Abuja camp from goalkeepers are Ifeanyi Harcourt (Sporting Lagos); Light Emerenonye (Diamond Academy) and Abubakar Rufai (Mavlon FC), as well as defenders Adamu Maigari (El-Kanemi Warriors); Daniel Bameyi (Bayelsa United); Kenneth Igbokwe (Enugu Rangers); Haruna Aliyu (Wikki Tourists); Musa Adamu (Wireless FC); Shamsudeen Muhammad (Mavlon FC); Ibrahim Abdullahi; Shamsudeen Ishaq (Grassrunner FC); and Steven Jolomi (Mavlon FC).

Midfielders expected in the camp are Raphael Oyebanji (Shuffle Select FC); Mohammed Ibrahim (Niger Tornadoes); Kizito Opara (Campus Academy); Alabi Sulaiman Jojo (El-Kanemi Warriors); Sulaiman Abubakar (Diamond Academy); Shafiu Adamu (Wikki Tourists); and Cletus Simon (Mavlon FC), while the forwards are Bidemi Amole (Real Sapphire Academy); Clinton Japhet (Enyimba FC); Matthew Chukwusa (Morack Academy); Nasiru Salihu (El-Kanemi Warriors); Divine Olisha (Fostar Academy); Jerry Salami (Aspire Academy); Oluwaseyi Akinfenwa (Real Sapphire Academy); Shola Adelami (Ikorodu City); Abdulrahaman Ishaq (Sport Supply Academy); Ezekiel Anthony (Aspire Academy); and Sodiq Olalekan Adewunmi (Jaguar Sports FC).