Nigeria is to release militant leader Henry Okah because he has accepted a government amnesty offer, the presidential spokesman says.

But spokesman Olusegun Adeniyi said details of the release still needed to be worked out.

Henry Okah is a leader of the Mend militant group in the oil-rich Niger Delta region.

The government recently offered an amnesty to members of any militant group which laid down its weapons.

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