Lillestrom's Nosa Igiebor plucked a brace, Ekigho Ehiosu scored on a second debut and Haruna Lukman could afford to miss a second half penalty after scoring in the first half.
Faced with five full internationals on the Ethiopia side, including their national team first choice goalkeeper, Eguavoen started with a side chock-full of Europe-based players.
The home side needed a big win to start their campaign on the right footing, and they did not disappoint.
Odion Ighalo, much-maligned after a poor World Youth Championship two years ago in Egypt, showed he had put all that behind him, as he opened the scoring after just 20 minutes.
Lukman followed soon after, making a late arrival into the box to apply a simple finish after dinking past one defender.
Nosa Igiebor made it three soon after and wasn’t long before he crashed in his second, and Nigeria's fourth.
When the impressive Nnamdi Oduamadi won a penalty with his trickery, Lukman could have made it five, but skied his penalty.
But Ehiosu, who scored on his Super Eagles debut, showed he could be equally impressive at a lower level, and put additional gloss on a comfortable scoreline with minutes left.
The second leg comes up in two weeks time.
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Well done boys.
Haruna should no longer be the main penalty taker. He keeps losing penalties and doesn't seem to take it serious
@Dirty419,clean419,Bomb and other ghanian bastards,shame to u all......ghana must go,useless shoe shiners.u hatenaija but u come to naija for security jobs,less privileged idiots called ghanians
eagles will keep flying higher and higher above the enemies
Last Updated: Saturday, 26 March 2011, 12:46 GMT
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Ghana's chances of progressing in the 2012 London Olympics qualifiers hangs by a thread losing 0-1 to Sudan at the Accra Sports Stadium on Saturday.
A 92nd minute goal by substitute Martin Wani Khamees dented the hopes of the 1992 Bronze medalists.
El Nour Osman Ahmed broke down the right flank and entered the box before delivering a pass across the face of Ghana’s goal for Khemees to slide in with the connection.
Sudan looked lively on the day and could have rattled in more goals.
The first half was a meandering encounter which failed to produce any highlights but the Black Meteors on two occasions made incursions but a sterile attack force by pair Kabiru Imoro and Bismark Idan could not find the back of the net.
After the break, El Nour Osman Mohammed failed to punish Ghana by shooting feebly into the hands of goalkeeper Joe Addo on 67 minutes.
It was Ghana’s turn to reply in the 71st minute but left-back Francis Larbi’s header missed target narrowly from a header inside the box.
Five minutes later, Sudan’s Martin Wani Khamees made a surprise miss after a break by the set-up only to shoot wide.
On 89 minutes Ghana substitute Wahab Yahaya had an opportunity to give the Black Meteors the opener but he too miss fluffed his line upfront.
Ghana face a daunting task to advance in the eliminators in the return leg fixture in a fortnight.
Ghana:
Joseph Addo-Tijani Joshua/Mohammed Sabato, Francis Larbi, Edward Kpodo, Elias Ankrah, Samuel Afum, Bright Nsiah, Kabiru Imoro/Wahab Yahaya, Bismark Idan, Larbi Coomson/Gladson Awako.
Subs: Daniel Agyei, Mohammed Sabato, Daniel Gyamfi, Theophilus Appoh, Gladson Awako, Emmanuel Baffour, Yahaya Wahab
Sudan: El Khair Musa Muner, Kamal Suliman Amir, Saed Osman Abdel, Hamid Nassir, El Hag Hassan El Taher, Abd El Moem Marhoum Mohammed, Agar Shareif, Abdalla Adam Ahmed, Ali Maki ElRayah, El Nour Osman Mohammed.
Source: Ghanasoccernet
21YRS old Nigeria Kennedy Ugoala Nwanganga who currently plays for Leading Belgian Clubside RC Genk told Micheal Oye,a Belgian football scout that he is set to appear for Finnish side.The scout who formerly introduced Marvin Ogunjimi to Nigeria Football Federation contacted the player during the week when the news came about the highly rated young attacking midfielder player to turn to finnish side,Micheal told our correspondent that he was about to introduce the player who scored a fantastic goal for Genk against Standard Liege to Augustine Eguavoen side,but the player who currently hold Finland passport is not showing interest in turning for Nigeria.
According to Micheal Oye,more consultation is still going on and i have an appointement with the players manager to convince him further.................