Like master, like servant: Nigerian terror group Boko Haram releases first beheading video since pledging allegiance to ISIS

The footage bears all the hallmarks of an Islamic State propaganda video

Shows Boko Haram fighters battling Nigerian troops in unknown location 

Captured soldier is forced to kneel before he is shot dead and decapitated

Somali terror group Al-Shabaab's merger with Islamic State is 'imminent

Boko Haram has set a terrifying new precedent by releasing its first gruesome video of a beheading since it pledged allegiance to ISIS.

The video adopts many of the same style-points as the hundreds of barbaric videos released by ISIS over the last year.

The 'west Africa' insignia in the top-left corner suggests the terror group has set up a new so-called media wing in the country.

It comes on the same day that MailOnline learned of a Somali terror group's intentions to join ISIS - which would extend its so-called caliphate to east-Africa