{"id":205163,"date":"2025-08-21T16:25:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T14:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/nigerias-consul-general-in-cameroon-taofik-coker-dies\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T16:25:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T14:25:35","slug":"nigerias-consul-general-in-cameroon-taofik-coker-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/nigerias-consul-general-in-cameroon-taofik-coker-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria&#8217;s Consul General in Cameroon, Taofik Coker, Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\"><em>He passed away last Saturday, August 16, after a brief illness, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">The Nigerian Consul General in the Republic of Cameroon, Taofik Coker, has died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">He passed away last Saturday, 16 August, after a brief illness, according to the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ministry<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">of Foreign Affairs.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">In a statement issued on Thursday to announce his death, the ministry described Mr Coker as a hardworking career diplomat who served the country with distinct professionalism throughout his lifetime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508210394.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He passed away last Saturday, August 16, after a brief illness, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Nigerian Consul General in the Republic of Cameroon, Taofik Coker, has died. He passed away last Saturday, 16 August, after a brief illness, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In a statement issued on Thursday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":205164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,4698,377,23694,33842,6868,6768,257,5761,254,52163],"class_list":["post-205163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-coker","tag-consul","tag-dies","tag-general","tag-news","tag-nigerias","tag-south-africa-today","tag-taofik"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}