Cynthia Aku put daylight between Nigeria and Algeria with two goals in the first 25 minutes, scoring the first in the 16th minute of play.
Zainab Olapade made sure of a miserable afternoon for the North Africans with a third on the dot of the referee’s final whistle.
The Falconets will now play the winner of the second semi-final between host nation Morocco and Cameroon for the gold medal.
Nigeria’s U20 boys, Flying Eagles will on Tuesday take on their Malian counterparts in the semi-finals of the men’s tournament.
The Flying Eagles drew with Burkina Faso (1-1) and Morocco (2-2) and defeated South Africa (2-1) to reach the last four at this tournament.
To the seven-time African champions, the Malians are kind of familiar customers, after both teams also clashed in the semi-finals of this year’s Africa U20 Cup of Nations in Niger Republic. The encounter ended 1-1 in regulation and extra time but the Malians triumphed after penalty shoot-out.
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