Question: How many people died in the Nigerian Civil War?
About the article "Nigeria", section "Civil war (1967-1970)".

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The Niger Delta people sustained heavy suffering and deaths during the Nigerian Civil War also known as the Biafran War with Nigeria as the entire Niger Delta became major war fronts as the Nigerian Army fought and pushed the Biafran soldiers out of the Niger Delta into the Biafra territory leading to the end of the war.
Over one million Niger Deltans died during the war with present Akwa Ibom State, Bayelsa State, Cross River State, Delta State, and Rivers State of which Akwa Ibom State, Delta State and Bayelsa State sustained most of the casualties.
Initial lost of lives occurred when the Biafran soldies invaded the Niger Delta at the start of the war where many Niger Delta community leaders were eliminated as the region was mainly on the side of the Federal Government.
Many children and adults died due to starvation, diseases and as casualties of war. 
When Nigeria won independence from Great Britain in 1960, ethnic tensions rose between the regions resulting in the Nigerian Civil War in 1967-1970.
After the war, the Aros and the rest of the Igbo People suffered discrimination from other Nigerians.
Many Igbo moved out of Nigeria.
Aro culture suffered.
However, they are currently efforts to unite Aro people and revive their culture. 
Obosi is a town in Anambra State, southeastern Nigeria.
A hotly contested site during the Nigerian Civil War, the town of about 140,000 people is one of the most densely populated in West Africa. 
The war cost the Igbos a great deal in terms of lives, money and infrastructure.
It has been estimated that up to three million people may have died due to the conflict, most from hunger and disease.
Reconstruction, helped by the oil money, was swift; however, the old ethnic and religious tensions remained a constant feature of Nigerian politics.
Accusations were made of Nigerian government officials diverting resources meant for reconstruction in the former Biafran areas to their ethnic areas.
Military government continued in power in Nigeria for many years, and people in the oil-producing areas claimed they were being denied a fair share of oil revenues.
Laws were passed mandating that political parties could not be ethnically or tribally based; however, it has been hard to make this work in practice.
Igbos who ran for their lives during the pogroms and war returned to find their positions had been taken over; and when the war was over the government did not feel any need to re-instate them, preferring to regard them as having resigned.
This reasoning was also extended to Igbo-owned properties and houses.
People from other regions were quick to take over any house owned by an Igbo, especially in the Port Harcourt area.
The Nigerian Government justified this by terming such properties abandoned.
This, however, has led to a feeling of an injustice as the Nigerian government policies were seen as further economically disabling the Igbos even long after the war.
Further feelings of injustice were caused by Nigeria changing its currency, so that Biafran supplies of pre-war Nigerian currency were no longer honoured.
At the end of the war, only N£20 was given to any easterner regardless of the amount of money he or she had had in the bank.
This was applied irrespective of their banking in pre-war Nigerian currency or Biafran currency.
This was seen as a deliberate policy to hold back the Igbo middle class, leaving them with little wealth to expand their business interests.
On 29 May 2000, "The Guardian (Nigeria)" reported that President Olusegun Obasanjo commuted to retirement the dismissal of all military persons who fought for the breakaway state of Biafra during the Nigerian civil war.
In a national broadcast, he said that the decision was based on the principle that "justice must at all times be tempered with mercy."
 September - Christopher Okigbo, poet, 37, killed during Nigerian Civil War