Three weeks of gathering documents. Anywhere from ₦180,000 to over ₦500,000 gone. Then a letter that explains nothing.
“The information submitted regarding the justification for the purpose and conditions of the intended stay were not reliable.”
No officer will ever tell you which line of your file caused that. You are left to guess, ask in a WhatsApp group, and pay the fee again.
Almost half of Nigerian Schengen applications were refused in 2024. The money never comes back. Most of those people were not unqualified. Their files simply did not hold together.