The militants' leader has reiterated in a new video message that he is prepared to negotiate a prisoner swap for them. He also expressed support for Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-declared caliph of a new Middle Eastern state. Boko Haram sparked a global outcry when it abducted the girls three months ago.
President Jonathan's government has faced strong criticism for not doing enough to curb violence by Boko Haram, especially in the wake of the kidnappings. Malala met President Jonathan in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, and urged him to meet the families of the kidnapped girls.
She met relatives of the girls on Sunday, and expressed solidarity with them.
BBC Nigeria correspondent Tomi Oladipo says it is highly unusual that the president has not spoken to the relatives, exactly three months after the abductions.
The military has also failed to debrief some of the girls who managed to escape from captivity, he says. But in a statement after his meeting with Malala, President Jonathan said he would meet with the parents before they left Abuja "to personally comfort them and reassure them" that the government was doing "all within its powers to rescue their daughters".The notion that the government has not been doing enough to find and rescue the girls was "very wrong and misplaced", the statement said.
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