Shekau Is On The Run - Military

Senior military sources have confirmed that Nigerian soldiers have sacked Boko Haram insurgents from Alagarno, a town in Damboa local government area and one of the group’s strongholds. 
Sources who spoke to Sahara reporters also confirmed that the routed insurgents were fleeing, adding that he believed their leader, Abubakar Shekau, was among those now on the run.

Boko Haram leader Shekau making an address in a video on February 17, 2015.

The military source also added that the insurgents were driven out of the town in a military operation in which the Nigerian military used sustained air bombardment for several days. “After our troops had softened them [the insurgents] up through...
aerial bombing, our ground troops then moved in for a fierce gun battle and drove them away,” the source disclosed in an interview late last night.
The officer disclosed that hundreds of the Islamist fighters were killed in the operation. According to him, hundreds more of the insurgents were now on the run. The officer added that Mr. Shekau, the Islamist sect’s mercurial leader, was likely among those running away from the advancing troops.
“We are happy that we have reclaimed Alagarno, the second‎ most important stronghold of Boko Haram. Their leader (Shekau) was able to escape, but hundreds of militants were killed or captured by our troops,” the source said.

source...naij