Who is Dr Jengs?
Jengoa Agina-Obu, widely known as Brotha Jengoa or Bro J is a graduate of Mechanical
Engineering from Rivers State University of Science and Technology (Nigeria), he has a
Master of Science (Project Management) degree from the University of Liverpool (England), a PhD in Projects Management from State University of New York at Albany (USA), and another PhD in Pastoral Leadership from Meta-Theo International Theological Institute
(Nigeria); he is recently appointed a Professor of Engineering Management at Meta-Theo
International. He also has a Certificate in Human Health and Global Environmental Change from Harvard University.
Jengoa, who is a registered Mechanical Engineer with the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) and a member Australian Institute of Project Management, has worked as a mechanical engineer, mainly as a design engineer in the following
industries: offshore fabrications, building services, rail and mining infrastructure, and solar farm construction.
Jengoa's extensive engineering career has been in
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've 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.
On visiting my dad one day I saw him looking at her academic transcripts and wondering what to do next. After some glance at the transcripts I noticed a pattern in her performance and suggested to him that it wasn't worthwhile asking her to go back studying the same course even in another university. That the best is for her to change her field of study based on what was evident on her transcripts. He agreed.
She had to sit for the university matriculation exam again, got into a different program at another local university, this time more serious than she did previously. She was her class leader from her first year to her last year, representing the interests of her classmates before their lecturers and the school administration, eventually graduating with a first class degree! She is currently studying and doing her dissertation for her master's degree; another evidence that life can bring greater goodness if we are not afraid to start again.
The next and last account is equally important though not from an immediate family. While growing up on a school campus in the early 1980s I saw a family which was so different. Though they lived in the senior section of the neighbourhood, we didn't understand why the father in that home was thought of living with eccentricity. He was also supposed to be the paramount ruler of his community but he abdicated it to his younger brother. Despite his academic and professional achievements, his dressing and appearance were just laid-back and his children always looked as though unkempt.
His wife was a much