Breaking News: Ghanaian President, John Atta Mills Passes At 68

Ghanaian President, John Atta Mills is dead.

Attah Mills died on Tuesday afternoon after informing the country's Parliament he was visiting Nigeria.

A statement issued by the Ghanaian presidency,said, the late Ghanaian President, Atta Mills was actually sick. He died this afternoon of a brief illness. The Ghanaian presidency announced, "it is with a heavy heart...that we announce the sudden and untimely death of the president of the Republic of Ghana."

The statement said the president died at 68 due to brief illness. it is alleged that the late president was on his way to the Synagogue Church of All Nations, where he often worships with Prophet TB Joshua whenever he visits Nigeria.

Dr. John Evans Fifii Atta Mills was the third President of the Fourth Republic of Ghana. He was inaugurated on 7 January 2009, having defeated the ruling party candidate Nana Akufo-Addo in the 2008 election.

He was Vice-President from 1997 to 2001 under President Jerry Rawlings, and stood unsuccessfully in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections as the candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). He died in Accra on 24 July 2012.

Mills is a Fanti from Ekumfi Otuam in the Central Region of Ghana. He was born in Tarkwa, located in the Western Region of Ghana. He was educated at Achimota School, where he completed the Advanced-Level Certificate in 1963, and the University of Ghana, Legon, where he received "Black man of the month" several times.

In 1968, Mills studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and received a PhD at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. Thus began the journey of the next twenty years of Mills' life, which was largely spent with spells both in Ghana and internationally as an academic. Mills earned a Ph.D in Law from London University's School of Oriental and African Studies(SOAS) after completing his doctoral thesis in the area of taxation and economic development.

Mills' first formal teaching assignment was as a lecturer at the Faculty of Law at the University of Ghana Legon. He spent close to twenty five years teaching at Legon and other institutions of higher learning, and rose in position from lecturer to senior lecturer to associate professor, and served on numerous boards and committees.

Additionally, he travelled worldwide as a visiting lecturer and professor at educational institutions such as the LSE, and presented research papers at symposiums and conferences[3] In 1971, he was selected for the Fulbright Scholar program at Stanford Law School in the United States Of America.

At the age of 27, he was awarded his PhD after successfully defending his doctoral thesis in the area of taxation and economic development. He returned to Ghana that year, becoming a Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ghana. He became a visiting professor of Temple Law School (Philadelphia, USA), with two stints from 1978 to 1979, and 1986 to 1987, and was a visiting professor at Leiden University (Holland) from 1985 to 1986.