{"id":9936,"date":"2017-02-07T17:13:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T16:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=9936"},"modified":"2017-04-13T13:41:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T12:41:48","slug":"coker-increase-herbert-ebenezer","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/coker-increase-herbert-ebenezer\/","title":{"rendered":"COKER, Increase Herbert Ebenezer"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalist, born March 10, 1920, Calabar; married, has five children; Education: Dennis Memorial Grammar School, Onitsha; joined West African Pilot and Zik&#8217;s Press Limited, 1943; Career: Appointed Editor, Southern Nigeria Defender (zik&#8217;s paper), Ibadan 1947; editor, Eastern Nigeria Guardian, Port Harcourt, 1948; editor, West African Pilot, 1948- 51; appointed Information Officer, Commodity Marketing Boards ofNigeria. 1951-54; Senior Information Officer, Min istry of Information, Lagos, 1954-61; editorin- chief, Nigerian National Press and Chief Columnist, Sunday Post, 1961- 67; Deputy Director (Special war-time duties), Federal Ministry of Information, 1967-68; Pioneer Lecturer in Principles of History of Mass Communication, Institute ofJournalism, Uni versity of Lagos, 1967; Editorial Adviser and General Manager, Nigerian National Press, Publishers of the defunct Morning Post, 1968-73; Senior Lecturer and assistant Di rector, Nigerian Institute of Journalism, La gos, 1973-75; fellow, Public Relations As sociation ofNigeria; Publications: The Sur plus Women, 1949; Seventy Years oftheNi gerian Press, 1953; Grammar of African Names, 1964.; Address: 12, Molade Okoya Thomas Road, Offend ofAdeniyi Jones Av enue, P0 Box 8546, Ikeja, Lagos State. Tele phone: 01-963373.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[452],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-9936","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/9936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/9936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9936"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=9936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}