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Christina Ayodele George in 1907. George died in 1938, and he later took on another wife, Lady Ayodele. Alakija sent most of his children from his first wife to Britain for education. One of them, his only daughter, was
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and businessman. He served as a member of the
Nigerian legislative council for nine years starting in 1933. In 1942, he became a member of the governor's Executive Council. Alakija was president of
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relationships with many organizations and communities among whom were the
Lebanese and Syrian community in Nigeria, he was decorated with a medal of the cedars after his visit to Lebanon in 1949.
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symbols inside the organization, such as the unblinking eye on an inverted V and three vertical shapes. He was himself also a
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