The Sokoto State Government has expressed its readiness to partner with the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria to advance healthcare training and delivery in the state.

Governor Ahmed Aliyu made the declaration at the opening of the College’s Annual Scientific Conference and All Fellows Congress, held at the International Conference Centre, Kasarawa, Sokoto on Tuesday.

The Chairman of Nigerian Medical Association, Ogun State, Dr Luqman Ogunjimi, on Tuesday called on the state government to ensure a cut in the tax deducted from the monthly emoluments of the doctors working with government establishments in the state.

Ogunjimi declared that one of the ways to ensure that the few doctors in the state stay behind to serve the populace is by heeding the doctors’ call for the government to look at reducing the amount of money deducted monthly as taxes from their emoluments.

Rescue teams deployed Tuesday to India’s Himalayan region after flash floods tore down a mountain valley, appearing to wipe away much of a town, where at least four people were killed.

Videos broadcast on Indian media showed a surge of muddy water sweeping away multi-storey apartment blocks in the tourist region of Dharali in Uttarakhand state.

Yemen’s Huthi rebels claimed responsibility for firing a missile at Israel’s main airport on Tuesday, as the Israeli military said it intercepted it.

The Iran-backed rebels targeted Ben Gurion airport “using a ‘Palestine 2’ hypersonic ballistic missile” in support of Palestinians in Gaza, their military spokesman Yahya Saree said in a video statement.

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Biodun Oyebanji, has said that the Federal Government is responding positively to the people’s yearning by fixing three of the six federal roads in the state.

Oyebanji said that the state government had also fixed one of the federal roads in the state.