General Irabor, ex-Nigeria Defence chief, unveils book on war against Boko Haram insurgency

By Kingsley Omonobi

Former Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor (Rtd), volition connected Friday, October 3, 2025, motorboat his caller book, “Scars: Nigeria’s Journey and the Boko Haram Conundrum,” a enactment that reviewers accidental is “destined to alteration the Boko Haram narrative.”

The unveiling volition instrumentality spot astatine the Congress Hall of Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been invited arsenic Special Guest of Honour, portion erstwhile President Olusegun Obasanjo volition seat the occasion. The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Most Rev. Dr. Matthew Hassan Kukah, is billed to reappraisal the book.

Boko Haram, which emerged successful 2002, unleashed unprecedented violence, demolition and economical disruption crossed Nigeria and the West African sub-region, with far-reaching continental and planetary implications.

In Scars: Nigeria’s Journey and the Boko Haram Conundrum, General Irabor draws connected his frontline acquisition to dissect the insurgency portion proposing applicable solutions to 1 of Nigeria’s astir pressing information challenges.

According to Jonah Ejenavi, Chairman of the Book Launch Organizing Committee, the 330-page publication is divided into 14 chapters crossed 3 parts. These sections research Nigeria’s humanities discourse and the roots of its information challenges; the devastation caused by Boko Haram; and the paradigm displacement required to reconstruct bid contempt ongoing threats of insurgency.

General Irabor’s bird’s-eye account, arsenic a commandant who led Nigerian forces against Boko Haram, provides uncommon penetration into the complexities of the struggle and the hard roadworthy toward nationalist stability.

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