As of February 2020, Nigerian citizens will need to pay a fee of €80 instead of €60 they currently do when applying for a Schengen visa from Nigeria. The external service providers are allowed to charge a service fee, which cannot be higher than the visa fee. This means Nigerians applying at an external visa service provider may have to pay up to €160 per visa application if the external service providers set the maximum service fee permitted, which is €80. In addition, the updated Visa Code introduces a mechanism that assesses whether the visa fees should change, every three years. France was the top favourite country for visa submission, as 33,308 of the applications submitted in Nigeria were for Schengen visas to France, followed by Italy with 13,295 and Germany with 10,847 applications.

Source: The Guardian December 18, 2019 14:26 UTC