Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau dismissed Nigerian military claims of his death in a new video obtained by AFP on Thursday and said the militants had implemented strict Islamic law in captured towns.
"Here I am, alive. I will only die the day Allah takes my breath," Shekau said, adding that his group was "running our... Islamic caliphate" and administering strict sharia punishments.
Nigeria's military said last week that Shekau was dead and that a man who had been posing as the group's leader in the videos had been killed after fighting with troops in the far northeast.
Security analysts and the United States questioned the credibility of the military's claim.
The new 36-minute video showed Shekau, in combat fatigues and black rubber boots, standing on the back of a pick-up truck and firing an anti-aircraft gun into the air.
Standing in front of three camouflaged vans and flanked by four heavily armed, masked fighters, he then speaks for 16 minutes in Arabic and the Hausa language widely spoken in northern Nigeria.
There was no indication of where or when the video was shot.
The heavily bearded Shekau, who appeared to be the same as those in previous clips, said the military's claim that he was dead was propaganda.
"Nothing will kill me until my days are over... I'm still alive. Some people asked you if Shekau has two souls. No, I have one soul, by Allah," he said, apparently reading from a script.
"It is propaganda that is prevalent. I have one soul. I'm an Islamic student.
"I'm the Islamic student whose seminary you burnt... I'm not dead," he added, apparently referring to the destruction of the group's mosque in the Borno state capital, Maiduguri, in 2009.
There have been two previous claims by Nigeria's security forces that Shekau was dead -- once in 2009 during unrest in Maiduguri -- and again in 2013.
Following each previous claim Boko Haram has issued denials in video messages.
Elsewhere in the new video, the militant leader said the group had implemented strict Islamic law in the towns that it had captured in recent weeks.

The shows Shekau firing an anti-aircraft gun into the air from the back of a truck
"We are running our caliphate, our Islamic caliphate. We follow the Koran... We now practise the injunctions of the Koran in the land of Allah," he said.
The group also claimed to have shot down a Nigerian air force jet that went missing nearly three weeks ago.
An air force spokesman said the jet was missing.
"For any group to claim they shot it down is mere propaganda and rubbish," Air Commodore Dele Alonge told AFP.


YOU ARE VERY STUPID , BOKO LEADER IS DEAD AS U ARE DEAD ALREADY , I KNOW YOU ARE ONE OF THE SPONSOR,,,,,,, HE GOAT... GOD PASS U,,,,,,,, UNTRAINED IDIOT .................
HE IS DEAD , HE IS BURNING IN HELL FIRE , OTULA , IKE  MBE

It is possible that the military is playing game, trying to put an end to what they are also involved, to justify the death sentence on the guys that revolted in Maiduguri. But they are yet to reach a compromise and that is why we are seeing this from Shekau from my own opinion.

This is very strange to know people actually believed that Shekau was dead, He is Alive and well..The Journalist That said Shekau was well and alive isn't dead, The post is about few days old, you can still search for it..Even the BH captured towns have not been recaptured by the NA, so who is fooling who? If those towns are taken back from BH then we should atleast believe 60% that Shekau actually died..Dont be deceived with all these propaganda..Check the video on youtube..its there.. stop doubting

A Zimbabwean woman Catherine Ndlovu, who allegedly paid thousands of dollars to visit Nigeria, seeking divine intervention for her hospitalised daughter has been reported as one of the  115 people confirmed to have died after the collapse of a church building owned by the pastor, TB Joshua.The family of the 40 year old has accused TB Joshua and his church for lying to them that their mother was alive only to dash their hopes later.
 She left Zimbabwe on September 11, a day after her 19 year-old daughter, Prioress Tshuma, who had suffered from seizures since 2007, was admitted at Mpilo Central Hospital. Believing the seizures were caused by an evil spirit,she came to seek divine intervention from TB Joshua .Hours ours after her arrival in Lagos,she died leaving behind a daughter in hospital..
.Her brother told he South African Chronicle
 “we called them (TB Joshua church) every day, asking where my sister was and they said she had boarded a plane back to South Africa and would be back last Sunday.
“We became suspicious when other Zimbabweans who had travelled to Nigeria came back via South Africa and she was not part of the group. It became clear they’d been lying to us and withholding information from us all along.”

Their uncle, Jabulani, was battling with a lot of questions and accused the church of attempting a clumsy cover-up.
“When we heard news of the collapse, we feared the worst. There was no communication from the church until my cousin, who lives in South Africa, called them. They just put up a wall of lies and kept telling us she was safe. It would be only several days later that they confirmed our worst fears,” he said.
But the family’s hope of getting Catherine’s body any time soon were immediately dashed after TB Joshua’s aides asked them to provide a DNA sample for positive identification.

“We don’t even know if that’s true, and our only hope now is that our government can get to the bottom of this. Who knows how many other Zimbabweans have been kept in the dark about their relatives’ fate?”

my prayer is that God should see Prophet TB Joshua through
 

U guys should come up with A better story..(scoan)..
attack my foot,u attacked u?.remember!. u can fool some people for sometime but u cant fool all the people all the time..there is god oooh

YOUR  FAMILIES WHO DIED, WERE THEY NOT TAKEN THEIR MEDICATIONS B4 THEY DIED? FOOLISH JOBLESS IDIOT, YOU ARE ONLY KILLING YOURSELVES COZ GOD HAS TAKEN TOTAL CONTROL, SOONEST IT WILL DAWN ON YOU N YOU WILL BE DISAPPOINTED. WHEN GOD WILL REVEAL ALL D PERPETRATORS OF D INCIDENT. THEN, YOU WILL NOW BELIVE T B JOSHUA FROM D LIGHT OF GOD.