Torino defender Ola Aina, Porto loanee Chidozie Awaziem and West Brom summer signing Semi Ajayi have reported for international duty ahead of Tuesday's historic match against Ukraine.
The Nigeria Football Federation have uploaded a photo via the Super Eagles official Twitter account showing 21 players who were involved in the first workout in Dnipro.
And only one player, Leicester City's Kelechi Iheanacho, was conspicuously absent from the team photo.
Newcomer Emmanuel Dennis was assigned the number nine kit worn by Odion Ighalo at the 2019 AFCON while Moses Simon has been handed the number 11 used by Henry Onyekuru this summer in Egypt.
Lokomotiv Moscow defender Brian Idowu was wearing Kenneth Omeruo's number 22 jersey in today's workout.
The Ukraine vs Nigeria friendly will begin at 2130 hours local time which is 1930 hours in Nigeria and Italian officials led by Paolo Valeri will be in charge of the game.
Ifeanyi Emmanuel
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