FG remains open to dialogue to resolve all contending issues in the Niger Delta.

President BUHARI said government is skeptical about the ceasefire announced by the Niger Delta militants.

The President said government was still trying to understand the militant agitators, by identifying their leaders and the area of operation of each of the groups.

President BUHARI gave this indication in an interview with journalists in Nairobi, Kenya where he attended the Sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development.

President BUHARI also assured that government was doing everything possible towards rescuing the abducted schoolgirls from Chibok in Borno State.

President BUHARI said the available options include engaging in discussions with authentic leaders of the Boko Haram terrorist group that abducted the Chibok girls in 2014.

The Nigerian leader said if the Boko Haram does not want to talk to the government directly, they could pick an internationally recognised Nongovernmental Organisation to represent them.

However; President BUHARI said such NGO must extract conviction from the Boko Haram that they were holding the girls, and that they want the Nigerian Government to release a number of their leaders in detention, whom they are supposed to know.

Meanwhile; the President maintained that the Boko Haram terror group, which pledged allegiance to the so-called Islamic State, has been largely decimated by the Nigerian military with the support of government forces from Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Benin.