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as indigenous opinion leaders. All were in favor of retaining the tolls to avoid upsetting the rulers. In 1903 the government of the colony prepared a
Newspaper Ordinance ostensibly designed to prevent libels being published. George, Williams and Johnson, the three Nigerian council members, all
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of Lagos an annual grant of £1,000 for his lifetime, after which they would assume full sovereignty of the colony. When
Dosunmu died in 1884, Africans led by James Johnson and supported by George demanded a reasonable payment for his son, Oyekan. This was agreed by the administration, but only
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objected on the grounds that the ordinance would inhibit freedom of the press. George said "any obstacle in the way of publication of newspapers in this colony means throwing Lagos back to its position forty or fifty years ago". Despite these objections, the ordinance was passed into law.
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reluctantly. In August 1896, C.J. George and G.W. Neville, both merchants and both unofficial members of the
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in 1886. The new legislative council was composed of four official and three unofficial members. Moloney nominated two
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building was opened in June 1877. On 17 February 1881, George was one of the community leaders who laid the foundation stone for the Wesley Church at
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community, including C.J. George, met to discuss founding a similar school for members of their communion. After a fund-raising drive, the
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