摘要:The need for moving Nigerian economy for global relevance is increasingly becoming an issue.On the other hand, Brazil, China, India and South Africa-BCIS are emerging as significant forcein the global economy. Their shares in world exports increased from 0.86% to 1.155% for Brazil,3.87% to 8.09% for China, and 0.66% to 1.01% for India. That of Nigeria marginally increasedfrom 0.33% to 0.39% within the same period. While manufactured products form bulk of theexports of BCIS, primary products have consistently dominated that of Nigeria. The paperanalysed how Nigeria has fared at the global plane by drawing inferences from BCIS. The studyemployed secondary data sourced from World Bank, etc. The study submitted that functionalinfrastructures, functional legal framework, among others, as key ingredients that should be inplace if the dream of Nigeria becoming a country with global relevance is to be realised