The Voice says a research it conducted has revealed that unless the NDC government takes positive and direct steps to resuscitate the country's tertiary institutions, particularly the universities, they will be 'extinct' by the year 2000. Under a banner headline on its front page: Doom hangs over universities", the Voice says the existing conditions in Ghana's universities are simply deplorable. The biggest problem facing the universities is the enrolment and beefing up of the academic staff. The paper says half of the staff are over 50 years old and will be retiring in three years' time. GRI

''Parliament to vet retained minister:", is the headlline of another story on the front page of the Voice. The story says the Minority Group will ensure that all those retained ministers who have not been vetted yet are being called upon for vetting and subsequent approval by parliament when the house resumes sitting tomorrow. According to the Voice this was disclosed by Mr Yaw Barimah, MP for Koforidua who is also the opposition shadow minister of Local Government, when he addressed a public forum organised in his constituency to enable him brief the electorate on the deliberations in parliament. Mr Barimah said the opposition walk-outs were not a deliberate act to thwart the smooth functioning of parliament as was perceived in certain quarters but rather "to test the NDC's so-called popular slogan of probity and accountability", the paper says. The Chronicle reports Mr Barimah as saying that the fact that a minister was approved by the previous parliament did not logically mean that the same person should be presumably considered 'clean', hence the need to vet them again. GRI