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LEAP Africa, a youth-focused leadership development nonprofit organization, has opened regional offices in the northern and southern regions of Nigeria.

LEAP, coined from Leadership, Effectiveness, Accountability, Professionalism, aims to raise African leaders through the creation and deployment of customized programmes to equip youth with soft and life skills for leadership, entrepreneurship, employability and active citizenship.

According to LEAP, the opening of the new offices in the federal capital territory, Abuja and Akwa Ibom state, is an attempt to deepen its work through collaboration with private, public and development sectors in the two regions.

Femi Taiwo, executive director of LEAP, said the expansion will boost the organisation’s support for the realisation of the sustainable development goals by 2023.

“Through our strategic positioning in these regions, our programmes will reach more underserved communities and will further boost the work of the organization in supporting the realization of the SDGs by 2030 as we intend to consolidate efforts with bilateral organizations, corporations and collaborate across the sectors,” he said in a statement.

“We plan to scale up our flagship programmes and ensure it is reaching new communities in these areas.”

He added that the organisation is determined to secure more partnerships for development to foster the transition of more youth across Africa.