The FIFA ranking for the month of May has been released, and the Super Eagles of Nigeria have moved two place up the ladder to occupy the 45th position in the world.
Nigeria has 620 points as against 616 points and 47th position it occupied last month.
With the latest ranking, Nigeria is now the sixth placed country in Africa as against the seventh position it occupied in March ranking.
Nigeria displaced Tunisia who went down by nine spots from the sixth position in Africa to the seventh position.
The first five African countries are Cote d’Ivoire, Egypt, Algeria, Ghana and Cape Verde .
Cote d’Ivoire, which placed first in Africa, is now the 21st, Egypt is the 24th, Algeria maintained the 25th position, Ghana dropped to the 38th and Cape Verde also dropped to the 42nd position in the world.
On the global stage, there was a change in the first five positions with Portugal, Colombia and Uruguay climbing up by one spot each for Argentina to drop to the sixth position from the third.
The ranking shows Spain retaining the first position with 1,460 points, followed by Germany, Portugal, Colombia, and Uruguay who have 1,340, 1,245, 1,186 and 1,181 points respectively.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the next FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking will be published on May 8.