Abuja countries relocated their embassies to Abuja, and many maintain their former embassies as consulates in Lagos, the commercial capital of Nigeria. Abuja is the headquarters of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the regional headquarters of OPEC. Abuja and the FCT have experienced huge population growth; it has been reported that some areas around Abuja have been growing at 20% to 30% per year. Squatter settlements and towns have spread rapidly in and outside the city limits. Tens of thousands of people have been evicted since former FCT minister Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai started a demolition campaign in
Abuja Investments Company Plc the foremost Mortgage Banking institution in the Capital City. AICL's subsidiary Abuja Markets Management Limited (AMML)provides facility management services to almost all markets in the Capital City, Abuja. The company has structured various platform companies for the economic development of the FCT in the energy sector, a couple of such companies are: AICL has strategic holdings in Capital Hotels (Sheraton Hotel & Towers, Abuja)and is parent company to Abuja Film Village In partnership with the Abuja Environmental Protection Agency (AEPB), AICL has made huge investments in this sector especially in the provision of waste disposal trucks through the incorporation