By Oremade Oyedeji
The New World Order basically is gaining power and authority over the kings, presidents and nations of the world (allegedly) through taking advantage of the Coronavirus pandemic and Nigeria needs a clear strategy that fits the changing world geopolitical context expectedly to be implemented by strong leadership.
So far not so good, only Lagos, Ogun and Abuja have been on the fore front, and in my opinion, the Lagos State Governor, Babajide sanwo-Olu, and his Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, seem to be our best strategic foot-soldier towards the new world order. The Commissioner for Health appears always calm on TV and his explanations are well understood by commoners.
Economic analysts will be watching Kano state government and many others take advantage of pandemic in understanding and realigning its economy with the new world order in the coming weeks ahead.
In an article published by SBM Intelligence titled Nigeria in a changing geopolitical context on Monday, August 26, 2019, the dangers facing Nigeria, if it does not align with the emerging new world order, were clearly outlined.
In the past, Nigeria failed to take advantage of the post Second World War set-up to grow its economy. In an article published by me titled The Nigerian Ecosystem of the fourth industrial revolution, I talked about the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) combining technological and human capacities in an unprecedented way through self-learning algorithms, self-driving cars, human-machine interconnection, and big-data analytics.
In Nigeria for example, during this pandemic, our learning pattern has changed; higher institutions of learning like Lagos Business School and even consulting firms like Project Mechanics have all taken advantage of the situation to project their virtual learning and consulting school through the use of Zoom, Microsoft Teams etc. Secondary and primary schools alike in Lagos are also moving into virtual classrooms.
Also, in the last few weeks of lockdown, most Annual General Meetings have been conducted by proxy, having shareholders attend the meeting via video conferencing platforms and Guaranty Trust Bank Plc was the first to explore this. Also, staff of most companies now work from home.
Summary of how it all started
David Rockefeller said to the UN in 1994, “We are on the brink of Global Transformation. All we need is one good crisis and the nations will accept the one world order!!” and yes, this pandemic has proven to be such an event!!
Whether this was deliberately created and released by the globalists or if the release was “accidental”, they have been able to maximize and take full advantage of this crisis through main-stream media and control of governments figures.
The globalists, maybe through fear, puo-science and maybe statistical manipulation, have shut down the whole world. They will do so for as long as their objectives are achieved, which some believe to be a One World Government through government and political control, one currency & financial strategies and religion.
There is a popular joke about the 5G versus Religion myth, did you hear or read about it?
Well, Donald Trump’s “America First” strategy points to a couple of difficult decades ahead for the Nigerian and global economies” according to the SBM Intelligence article.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, neo-liberal economics started to become popular. This is according to the article “The consensus was that free trade, lower tariffs and the free movement of goods and services was the ordained path to a shared prosperous economic destiny for the world.”
Yes, to the economic prosperity of the world, on the contrary, Nigeria so far has been a dumping ground for foreign made good, which has crippled our industries, making them less competitive, which the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s Ease of Doing Business agenda is expected to bridge the gap. Also, the Nigerian government deliberately refused to sign the African free trade agreement.
What exactly is this New World Order? The term “new world order” has been used to refer to any new period of history evidencing a dramatic change in world political thought and the balance of power. Despite various interpretations of this term, it is primarily associated with the ideological notion of world governance only in the sense of new collective efforts to identify, understand, or address worldwide problems that go beyond the capacity of individual nation-state to solve.
In conclusion, believe it or not, it’s all about the money, the deliberate shift of the world economic resources. According to PwC, global GDP could increase by 14% in 2030 as a result of Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Robotics which is an additional $15.7 trillion.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution or Information age as others call it, is rapidly causing disruption by providing digital platforms for research, development, marketing, sales and distribution: all of which could drive efficiency and productivity while also reducing logistics and communication cost and creating new global supply chain channels.
The good news is that while new technology may cause the creative destruction of some jobs, it will also create many new jobs, some of which we can’t even imagine today. The truth is that in the past, technology has ended up creating more jobs than it wipes out
Now, the real question is, is Nigeria as a whole and not just Lagos, Ogun and Abuja ready for the future of this new world coming? Be that it may, Oba Ogunwusi Enitan is very much ready, and he is very busy fighting the Coronavirus pandemic. He is commissioning fumigators drones and trucks for the 36 states in Nigeria.
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