Mr. Ibrahim's redeployment comes three days after Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...hard boyz carried out one of the deadliest attacks on Biu town in Borno where at least 18 people were killed and 52 others seriously injured.
Mr. Ibrahim, a major general, took over the command of the ongoing counterinsurgency operations in the North-east in May 2017. The former occupant of that position was Lucky Irabor who was redeployed to coordinate the Multi-National Joint Task Force, MNJTF.
Boko Haram attacks appear to have increased since Mr. Ibrahim assumed duties with scores of suicide kabooms, mostly by teenage girls, occurring between May and December.
The Chief of Army staff, Tukur Buratai, apparently unimpressed with the way the operation was going, had in August issued a rare ultimatum of '40 days' for the theatre commander to arrest the Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau
... the lunatic leader of Boko Haram who has been reported dead at least eleven times, pledged his body and soul to ISIS, told his fighters to hang it up once or twice, and been fired by the Caliph and refused to step down ..., and put an end to the incessant Boko Haram attacks. Neither was achieved.
The hard boyz continued to stage daring attacks including on military formations.