The Super Eagles host Cape Verde in a top-of-the-table Group C clash on Tuesday and will win the section supplied they avoid defeat in Lagos.
Nigeria have 12 factors and Cape Verde 10 after 5 rounds even as the Central African Republic (4) and Liberia (3) are out of the running.
Should the six-time World Cup qualifiers pinnacle the desk, they join nine other segment winners in a draw a good way to create 5 two-leg ties with the winners going to the 2002 finals in Qatar.
Osimhen transformed a 15th-minute penalty after Kelechi Iheanacho became fouled and replacement Ahmed Musa introduced the second intention, also from a gap kick, in introduced time.
The qualifier become staged inside the Moroccan coastal city of Tangiers because no stadium in Liberia meets worldwide standards.
Cape Verde, an island country of 560,000 human beings that has by no means competed on the World Cup, stored their hopes alive via coming from in the back of to beat the Central African Republic 2-1 in Mindelo.
Julio Tavares netted early inside the second 1/2 to cancel the lead Isaac Ngoma gave the traffic after 11 mins, and Ianique 'Stopira' Tavares notched the seventy fifth-minute winner.
Ivory Coast will take a one-point lead over Cameroon to Douala on Tuesday for a showdown that will decide who progresses from Group D.
Goals from Max-Alain Gradel, Burnley forward Maxwel Cornet and Jean-Michael Seri gave the Ivorians a three-zero win over Mozambique in Cotonou a few hours after Cameroon had outplayed 10-guy Malawi 4-0 in Soweto.
