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Nigerian-born Utibe O. Bassey grew up in Connecticut and has family scattered far and wide, but none in Virginia. When she moved to Richmond in the summer of 2020 for a job with Dominion Energy, she was all alone and the pandemic was raging.
It was last Wednesday, February 3, 2021, that I spent about an hour with Kadaria Ahmed. She’d called the previous day that I will be a guest newsreader on her squeaky new station, Radio Now 95.3FM, Lagos, at 1.00 pm. Despite the very short notice but largely on account of my deference to who put her on to me, I dressed up, showed up and took the short news bulletin. In my broadcasting days, that bulletin was what was named News Summary. They served as hors d’oeuvre for the main dish, the National News. They were also taken by rookies and the duty announcers perfunctorily. But on Ms Ahmed...