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Oil prices "totally unacceptable", Nigerian president tells Qatar's ruler

The OPEC cartel needs to take action to stabilise the oil market because crude prices have fallen to "totally unacceptable" levels, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said on Sunday.

Nigeria, Africa's biggest oil producer which earns around 90 percent of its foreign exchange earnings from crude oil exports, has been hit hard by the erosion of vital revenues caused by the global slump in oil prices which has also hammered its currency.

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