The friendly against Algeria will take place at the Miloud Hadefi Stadium, Oran on Tuesday, September 27.

We’re regrouping again for a friendly against Algeria on September 27, 2022. Quick update: Injured (Ruled out of the friendly): Musa, Chukwueze, Balogun, Onyekuru. Replacements: Ozornwafor, Godwin Saviour, Ebube Duru, Dennis,” a statement from National Team read.

They become the third and fourth player to miss the encounter after the duo of Leon Balogun and Henry Onyekuru pulled out of the game on account of injuries.

Musa, who made his first start for Sivasspor on Sunday in their 2-1 loss to Ankaragucu was replaced after 19th minutes by Clinton N’Jie after he fractured his arm in the encounter after stretching his left hand in a duel with a defender.

Musa’s left arm was fractured and the treatment process has started immediately,” a statement on Sivasspor’s website reads.

The 29-year-old is Nigeria’s most-capped player in history, having played 106 matches since his debut aged just 17 in 2010. He helped the Eagles win the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations and played for them at the last two World Cups.

The three-time African champions remain unmoved in the latest Fifa rankings released by the world football governing body on Thursday, December 10, 2020. Gernot Rohr’s Super Eagles garnered a total of 1474 points to stay as the fifth-best team on the continent behind Senegal, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco.

Nigeria played only four games l this year- The first match ended as a 1-0 defeat to Algeria in an international friendly. Before a 1-1 draw against Tunisia in another international warm-up game staged at the Jacques Lemans Arena, Austria.

Senegal is ranked first on the continent and 20th in the world with 1558 points.

Africa CDC gave the update on its official Twitter account on Friday morning.

According to the tweet, “COVID-19 had killed 2,074 people, while 18,636 patients have recovered.’’

Further breakdown on the Africa CDC COVID-19 dashboard also showed that South Africa, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, and Nigeria top the list of countries with the highest reported Coronavirus cases and deaths on the continent.

It s aid, “#COVID19 update in Africa (As of 8 May, 2020, 9 am East Africa Time).

“53 @_AfricanUnion Member States reporting 54,027 cases, 2,074 deaths, and 18,636 recoveries.’’

InsideOjodu reported that the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) confirmed 381 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, bringing to 3526 the number of confirmed cases in the country as of Thursday night.

In a statement shared on the Facebook page of Egypt’s health ministry, it was gathered that the foreigner who tested positive for the new coronavirus strain was taken to an isolation hospital and is currently receiving necessary medical care.

The North African country is also taking strict preventive measures regarding those who were in contact with the person.

Algeria on the other hand announced its first coronavirus case, an Italian national who arrived in the country on February 17. He was later flown home to Italy which has almost 1,700 cases.
Tunisia’s health Minister, Abdelatif el-Maki in a press conference on Monday March 2 announced the country’s first case of coronavirus. The Tunisian man who came in from Italy, tested positive for the flu-like virus.

Senegal’s Minister of Health, Abdoulaye Diouf Sarr who confirmed the country’s first coronavirus case, said the French national arrived the country last week. He further disclosed that he is under observation at an Institute in Dakar.

The patient has however been in contact with his wife and two children, the minister said. It was not clear how many other people had also been in contact with him. Authorities are in the process of tracing the other passengers on the Air Senegal flight.

As of Monday, there have been over 89,000 cases of the virus globally, the majority in China. Outside of China, the deadly disease has been confirmed in 66 countries, with more than 8,800 cases and 130 deaths. Globally, the illness has killed over 3,000 people.

Algerian Minister of Health, Shamsuddin Shitor revealed that they were able to detect the flu-like virus due to the vigilance system adopted at all land, air and maritime entry points to the country.

He disclosed that an Italian man who arrived the North African country on February 17 has been placed in isolation, as he urged Algerians to be careful of the information they share online.

Shitor said “One case was confirmed positive for coronavirus (COVID-19), out of two suspected cases (both) of Italian nationality. “

Nigeria, Algeria, Angola, Ivory Coast, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia were identified as African nations with direct links or a high volume of travel to China.

The statement read “WHO has identified 13 top priority countries (Algeria, Angola, Cote d’Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia) which either have direct links or a high volume of travel to China. To ensure rapid detection of the novel coronavirus, it is important to have laboratories which can test samples and WHO is supporting countries to improve their testing capacity. Since this is a new virus, there are currently only two referral laboratories in the African region which have the reagents needed to conduct such tests. However, reagent kits are being shipped to more than 20 other countries in the region, so diagnostic capacity is expected to increase over the coming days. Active screening at airports has been established in a majority of these countries and while they will be WHO first areas of focus, the organization will support all countries in the region in their preparation efforts. It is critical that countries step up their readiness and in particular put in place effective screening mechanisms at airports and other major points of entry to ensure that the first cases are detected quickly”.

In the latest ranking published by FIFA on Thursday, Nigeria climbed to 33rd in the world from 45th in the June 2019 ranking and also maintained its 3rd position in the continent.

Algeria, who won the 2019 African Cup of Nations moved 28 places to 40th in the world and climbed from 12th in Africa to fourth place.

AFCON silver medal winners, Senegal, moved two spots up from 22nd to 20th and also maintained their number one spot in the continent. They are still the highest-ranked African country in the world.

It was an early scrappy strike that decided the match as Baghdad Bounedjah ball was deflected into the net.

The game didn’t really create any spark as only few chances were created, though the story would have been different if Sengal’s penalty call wasn’t overturn by VAR.

For Senegal a win would have mean they will secure their first Cup of Nations trophy but it was Algeria who secure their second African Cup of Nations trophy after 29 years.

With seconds to go, Riyad Mahrez scored free kick from the edge of the box as Algeria defeated Nigeria 2-1.

Rohr told newsmen during a post – match interview that it was a game of two halves, adding however that Algeria were the better side at the end of the day .

He said “Until the last minute, Algeria had a better first half than us, but we came back a much better team in the second half. Unfortunately, we conceded a goal in the last minute. I think the players wanted to go to extra time believing that perhaps Algeria will get tired and we could win the match in extra time. It was a wonderful game . We lost it , so we are not happy. Congrats to the winners. They were the better team in the first half. We scored an own goal, we were unlucky but we came back like we have always done all the time in this tournament. When we found ourselves in a difficult situation, we always reacted and we did that also today coming back through a penalty and playing a better second half but a wonderful free – kick from a football genius made the difference. In our last game , we won in the last minute against South Africa and today we lost. That’s football, ”