The strike declared by oil workers unions in Nigeria has severed gas supplies to several West African countries.
The gas is supplied through the West African Gas Pipeline, WAPCO,to Ghana, Togo, Benin.
The tap has been switched switched off, with Ghana describing the action as bad news.
It is “not good news” and could damage the country’s economy if prolonged, Ghana’s central bank governor Henry Kofi Wampah told a news conference on Wednesday.
A senior official at WAPCO in Ghana confirmed the shut down of the pipeline.
Ghana’s economy was hurt in 2013 by an energy deficit