Presidency says all remaining girls in captivity alive

The Presidency has disowned a journalist, Ahmed Salkida, who claimed in his tweets yesterday that only 15 out of the remaining 113 Chibok schoolgirls, believed to be with their Boko Haram abductors, are alive. 

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, said in a statement yesterday that Salkida’s information was unknown to the federal government.

Shehu said available facts indicated that all the remaining girls in the captivity of the Boko Haram terrorists who abducted them were alive.