News coming in has it that former Vice President Alhaji Aliu Mahama, has passed on this morning at the Korle-Bu teaching hospital.

Alhaji Aliu Mahama served under the erstwhile Kufuor administration from 2001 to January 7 2009.

He died at the age of 66.

The former Vice President has been ill for some time now and has been receiving treatment at the nation’s premiere hospital.

Not long ago rumours were rife that the former Vice President had passed on, a report which was debunked by his family and the hierarchy of the New Patriotic Party.