Niger Delta

===Nigerian Civil War===
The people of the Eastern region mostly the Igbo speaking language suffered heavily with the great loss of lives and properties, hunger and starvation, and sustained many deaths during 1967–1970 [[Nigerian Civil War]], also known as the Biafran War, in which the eastern region declared an independent state named Biafra that was eventually defeated.<ref>{{Citation|date=2015-12-31|pages=xv–xx|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-1-4008-7128-5|doi=10.1515/9781400871285-003|chapter=Chronology of Important Events in the Nigerian Civil War|title=The International Politics of the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|last1=Heerten|first1=Lasse|title=The Nigeria-Biafra War|date=2017-07-06|work=Postcolonial Conflict and the Question of Genocide|pages=3–43|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-315-22929-4|last2=Moses|first2=A. Dirk|doi=10.4324/9781315229294-1}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Ekwe-Ekwe, Herbert.|title=The Biafra War : Nigeria and the aftermath. |date=1991 |location=[[Lewiston, New York]] |publisher=[[Edwin Mellen Press]] |isbn=0-88946-235-6 |oclc=476261625}}</ref> During this period, schools were shut down completely, and gunfire became a daily occurrence.