The four-seater light aicraft that got missing is not in the country's airspace, Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) revealed. Mr Ibrahim Abdulsalam, the Managing Director of NAMA said that the incident was not within the jurisdiction of the agency.



He noted that the aircraft had been handed over to the Cameroon airspace authority before the incident occurred within their airspace.

“It did not occur within the Nigerian airspace, so there is nothing we can do about it. We have handed over the aircraft to the Cameroon airspace,” he explained.

The aircraft was learnt to be owned by a U.S. company, Global Aviation.

It took off from Kano airport at about 6 p.m. on Monday (June 23) en route Libreville in Gabon.

The aircraft was scheduled to arrive at 11 p.m. same day, after a stop-over in Douala, Cameroon