The specialists sustained minor injuries to their hands.
Giedrius Misutis, spokesman for the State Border Guard Service, told BNS the Nigerian national had to be moved to other premises.
"When the border guards told him about this, he started to resist, shout and kick. He had a homemade knife in his pocket. He attacked the officers with the knife and started to brandish it. They had to use force, and used a Taser and handcuffs. The officers suffered minor injuries when truing to take the knife away, they both suffered injuries to their fingers and palms of their hand," Misutis told BNS.
According to the Police Department, the man, born in 2003, resisted and injured uniformed specialists, born in 1978 and 1989, at the SBGS Kybartai FRC.
The officers received hospital treatment and and continued their service.
A pre-trial investigation into the incident has been opened.
Misutis said the Nigerian citizen's asylum application was rejected once. After being granted the right of free movement, the man was detained at the Polish border and then returned to Lithuania. Now he has no such right.
Currently, 78 foreigners are living at the Kybartai FRC.