The ten-minute propaganda video, available with The Daily Mail, shows heavily armed Boko Haram militants launching rockets, travelling in open vehicles and shooting at Nigerian Army.
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That followed an attack on the village of Tchoukoudjani in southeast Niger on Wednesday in which at least one civilian was killed and three wounded, the United Nations humanitarian coordinator OCHA said.
One soldier is made to kneel at the feet of Boko Haram members who wield guns.
The video then cuts to reveal his decapitated body lying motionless on the floor.
The insignia “west Africa” at the top-left corner suggests that ISIS has set up a new media wing in the country.
The extremists had pledged allegiance to the ISIS in March earlier this year.
Commercial flights resumed into the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri today, almost 18 months after the airport was shut in the wake of a daring Boko Haram raid. It has been claimed that the increased bloodshed has been due to an Isis directive to intensify violence during the holy month of Ramadan.
The Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI), under the leadership of the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, has also condemned the bloody attacks reportedly by the Boko Haram insurgent group in Borno, Yobe and Plateau states. It controlled an area larger than Belgium at the end of 2014 before the regional offensive began.
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Some residents who had fled Gamboru across the border into northern Cameroon went back to the frontier town yesterday morning after hearing a rumour that Chadian and Cameroonian troops were providing security.
