A Nigerian civil society executive is urging the Central Bank of Nigeria to pursue shareholding in the Bank for International Settlements — not for dividend income, but for the institutional access, monetary expertise, and policy influence that membership confers. With only three African nations among the BIS's 63 central bank shareholders, Nigeria's absence from this body represents a quiet but consequential gap in the country's engagement with global financial governance. The argument is not merely technical: it is a question of whether Africa's largest economy will help shape the rules of i