The Nigerian Navy (NN) has suspended its 2020 recruitment exercise indefinitely due to coronavirus outbreak in the country.
This was contained in a statement by Director Naval Information (DINFO) Commodore Suleman Dahun.
Recall that the service commenced its online recruitment exercise on March 11. Dahun said the online registration for the 2020 recruitment has been suspended and the recruitment portal deactivated till further notice.
Earlier, The Herald reported that the federal government said the planned recruitment into the country’s civil service would be suspended except for essential services such as security and health services.
The minister of finance, budget and national planning, Zainab Ahmed, made this known on Wednesday.
Ahmed said: “From the expenditure side, the president has approved that we should cut down the capital expenditure budgeted by 20% across ministries, departments and agencies.
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“Also, a 25% cut of all government-owned enterprises and these include the ones that are in the national budget, the 10 top ones we included in the 2020 budget but also those we did not include in the 2020 budget. So, all of these would have their recurrent expenditure and capital expenditure cut down by 25%.
“By these measures, we expect that the operating surpluses that would accrue to the federation will increase because when their operational expenditure reduces the operating surpluses that they remit to the treasury will also increase significantly.
“I can just say that the bulk cut is about N1.5 trillion, the reduction in the size of the budget. And this includes N457 billion from PMS under-recovery.
“On recruitment, there is already an instruction to stop recruitment. What the agencies have been doing is replacement but even that is being suspended.”