See attached Statement of Change to be laid before the Parliament by the Immigration Minister for approval of increase in Visas fees from April 2012.
Although the Minister claimed the increase is only by 2% margin, one is left to ask the question if visas application fees are now a way of raising money for the UK led Tory government that every year the fees is increased when clearly the corresponding services being delivered getting poorer each year!

Source: http://www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/newsarticles/2012/february/21-new-immigration-fees-proposed

U.K is presently broke and Nigeria is where the money at, some desperate people wanna leave the country by fire by force and the embassy are prepared to denied millions of Nigerians just to make the money count.