Former African champions, Super Eagles, has moved four places to the 60th position in the World football governing body, FIFA, monthly ranking.
The Nigerian side got 562.32 points as against its previous 534.4 point last month.
On the continent, Gernot Rohr team are ranked 14th behind Cote d’ Ivoire, Algeria, Senegal, Tunisia, Ghana, Congo DR, Egypt, Congo, Mali, Morocco, Cameroon, Guinea and South Africa.
At the top of the log, there has been a reshuffle as Germany and Brazil have moved into second and third respectively.
A pair of wins for the current world champions, who saw off Czech Republic (40th, down 7) and Northern Ireland (36th, down 6) – just two of the 129 games played worldwide – means they have trimmed Argentina’s lead to just 156 points.
Belgium (4th, down 2) have fallen out of the top three for the first time since March 2015, with Colombia slipping to fifth (down 1), while defeated UEFA EURO 2016 finalists France (up 1) have leap-frogged European champions Portugal (8th, down 1) into seventh.
Spain return to the top ten, while fellow Europeans Poland (15th, up 2), Iceland (21st, up 6) and Kosovo (164th, up 4) have moved up to their highest-ever placings.
