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.
America would have had at least two presidents.
What more can happen in ten years? An international undergraduate student in Australia will graduate from university, get a job, apply for permanent residence, become a citizen and many more, all in ten years. And just imagine that while these and other things are happening, someone is without an income, not because he is lazy or unskilled, but because some powers felt they didn’t want him to be in an office he had worked so hard for and had met all necessary requirements. But as always the case, God shows up at times in ways very different from what we know or how we expect.
Within those ten years, another governor came to power, the governor was initially in the same political party with the local politician who made life unbearable for my friend but the governor later left for another party due to politician grievances. As a governor he set a commission of high-level achievers to review some things in government and just like that, someone from the Ministry of Justice was drafted in as the secretary of the commission. And guess who it was? My friend’s wife!
She did her work so well that the chairman of the commission wondered who she was. He enquired to know more about her, her career and her family. After explaining herself to him and the predicament of her husband, the chairman felt the matters concerning her husband were injustice against him. He took the matter straight to the governor who didn’t waste any time but swore my friend as a judge! And this was how ten years of frustration ended like vapour on a warm summer day.
I do not know what your present circumstances are, maybe you are faced with great distress, having initially received some good news; maybe you are looking forward to having some money to complete a process you have long waited for. God hasn’t forgotten you, no He hasn’t. There’s always a positive end in things that are brought to Him. Keep praying, keep believing. He ’ll come true for you too.
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