Roll call without Nigeria, by Patrick Omorodion

As a young Mass Server (or altar boy as they are called these days) at St. Christopher’s Catholic School on Ikot-Ekpene Street, near the famous Mile 1 market in the Diobu area of Port Harcourt, one song I loved so much in my Hymn Book back then was ‘When the roll is called up yonder’. As a little boy of 14 years back then, I saw myself in those red and white garments of the altar boys standing with that great man of God, Fr. Christopher Obieh, as one of the chosen ones wh