The Super Eagles defeated the Venezuela National Team 3 - 1 on Thursday morning in one of their build-up games to next year's African Cup of Nations, billed to be hosted by South Africa.<br /><br />While the South Americans had plenty of possession and had two goals disallowed, Nigeria was sharper in front of goal. <br /><br />Dynamo Kiev's Brown Ideye opened scoring for the Stephen Keshi tutored side four minutes after the restart. <span name="advenueINTEXT" id="advenueINTEXT"> Right wing-back Solomon Kwambe, making his debut, slipped in a fine cross to Ideye for his first international goal in five appearances.<br /><br />Real Betis midfielder Nosa Igiebor scored the pick of the goals, blasting a 30 - yarder past the Venezuelan goalkeeper </span>Daniel Hernandez in the 53rd minute for Nigeria's second.<br /><br />With 20 minutes left, <span name="advenueINTEXT" id="advenueINTEXT">Juan Arango played a through ball to substitute Frank </span><span name="advenueINTEXT" id="advenueINTEXT">Fletscher, who slotted the ball past the outstanding Austin Ejide from 18 - yards.<br /><br />Any hope of the Venezuelan supporters witnessing a late comeback by </span><span name="advenueINTEXT" id="advenueINTEXT"><span class="st"><em>The Burgundy </em>was dashed by Lazio youngster Eddy Onazi, who scored in stoppage time off an assist from debutant Shola Ameobi.</span><br /><br />Nigeria's next Afcon warm-up is against Angola at a training camp in Faro, Portugal in late December.<br /> </span>