has always been cerebral or scholarly. In fact, it was like the opposite: she was a very playful and somewhat unserious type.
I think her problem began from grade 10. For whatever reason she misplaced her priorities and did what her friends were doing without realising she was supposed to be mindful of herself. After performing poorly in grade 10 and much poorly in grade 11, her principal asked her to be removed from the school for poor academic performance.
This was shocking to my parents who both were in the teaching profession. I had come home from Nigeria's national youth service program to meet the crisis. After my own findings I told my parents to enrol her in a college to prepare her for her O' Level exams so she wouldn't lose an academic year. Surprisingly, she passed the exams, the first in our family to successfully pass the O' Level exams at a sitting.
She got admitted to study at a local federal university. And like the distractions of Grade 10, she started struggling with her schoolwork again. After spending 5 years for a four-year degree, it was evident she was going nowhere and had to drop out of school; another heart-rending experience for my parents. This time, my dad had become a university professor and my mum a secondary school principal, they couldn't understand why their last child couldn't do well academically. They were of the generation which grew up without literate parents and have always drilled into our hearing why we do not have any excuse to not perform well, if not better than them.
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consultancy, contractor-side, client-side, private and public sectors.
Jengoa is very much community oriented. Having spent much of his energy working with children, teens and young adults; he has taken every opportunity, especially while volunteering with the Student Christian Movement (SCM) of Nigeria; in teaching, equipping and developing the next generation.
Jengoa is like your regular church kid doing everything imaginable: music, prayers, preaching, theatre, etc. For over 10 years, he served as music director, writing songs,
leading congregational worship, and training new instrumentalists. His song Love to walk with Jesus was released on YouTube in August 2021, and is also now anticipating in November 2021 the release of his next song Thank You for the rain and books Reflections
on Abraham and Jengoa the untold story.
Family is his heartbeat. Married to the quintessential designer and creator at Ayi's Stitches the ever-so-beautiful Ayibaesin known widely as Ayi, they have been married since 2007 and are raising 4 gorgeous school age kids in one of the South Eastern suburbs in Melbourne
Australia, having moved from Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
Stay with me as we explore the beauties of life in my column
Living & Loving Life wth Dr
Jengs.