The Lazio midfielder broke his tibia and fibula from the horror tackle of France midfielder, Blaise Matuidi in a second-round match which Nigeria lost two-nil.
There has been no official word from the Nigerian camp as they left Brazil on Tuesday, a day after they were eliminated from the World Cup by Les Bleus of France.
But outgoing Nigeria head coach, Stephen Keshi, said after the match on Monday that Onazi will be "out now probably for weeks."
“I am not happy with the officiating because Onazi, on two occasions, had a very bad tackle and nothing was done. He is out now probably for weeks,” Keshi said at the post-match conference in Brasilia on Monday.
John Obi Mikel also felt that Onazi had suffered a broken ankle from the tackle.
“There were some heavy challenges and I think Onazi has broken his ankle. Challenges like this are bad but it was a 50-50, he just miscalculated,” Mikel said.
Onazi now has the lower part of his left leg in a cast in the wake of Matuidi's challenge.
The Frenchman has now apologised to Onazi in the aftermath of his tackle.
"I had no fear of being sent off. I'm sorry I didn't want to hurt Onazi. I am very sad, I'm not a bad player. I even went in the locker room of Nigeria to apologise," said Matuidi.
Onazi earlier on Tuesday took to the micro-blogging website, Twitter, to say he has accepted Matuidi's apology.
"Hello Blaise Matuidi thanks for the support and for concern. Let the game go on," he wrote via his Twitter account.
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