/ 5 February 1999

ABUBAKAR AFRICAN MAN OF THE YEAR

NIGERIA’s military ruler General Abdulsalami Abubakar has won the African Man of the Year Award for 1998. The Nigerian ruler received the award from the African Sun Times, a publication for African readers published in New York. Previous winners of the annual award are President Nelson Mandela and Ghanaian President Jerry Rawlings. Abubakar has promised to hand over power to an elected civilian government in Africa’s most populous nation this year.