Hello,

Greetings! We are happy to announce that the next edition of Tekedia AI Technical Lab is scheduled to begin on Saturday, November 15, 2025, and run for four Saturdays. The program webpage is here with pricing, syllabus and other details provided.

Co-learning with us, we will provide guidance on how to set up environment to build AI agents on your local computer and virtual web servers. When you are done, AI agents will be working on your machine or virtual private server.

Tekedia AI lab is not a coding or programming program; our goal is to help our co-learners connect pieces and components required to create AI agents, using DeepSeek, Google Gemma, Ollama, etc foundational models in both local and web servers, and not to teach programming. Basic secondary school education is the minimum requirement. We will provide required codes and sub-VPS location to co-learners.

The cost is $500 or N350,000 and you can pay at the program website here. This also covers bonus access to Tekedia AI in Business Masterclass. We support Naira bank transfer, PayPal, Stripe, Zelle, etc. Classes will begin on Saturday, Nov 15, 2025.

Upon completion, we award Advanced Diploma in AI Technical Design and Deployment, and Advanced Diploma in Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Business certificates. Join us.

Meanwhile, we have opened registration for the 19th edition of Tekedia Mini-MBA  (Feb 9 – May 2, 2026) here.

Regards,

Tekedia Institute Team

President Donald Trump said Saturday he has ordered the U.S. Department of Defense to prepare for possible military action in Nigeria, escalating tensions after accusing the West African nation of committing violence against Christians — an allegation the Nigerian government has repeatedly denied.

In a fiery post on his social media platform, Trump condemned what he described as the “mass slaughter” of Christians in Nigeria and announced that the United States would “immediately stop all aid and assistance” to the country unless its government acted swiftly to address the alleged crisis.

“The U.S. may very well go into that now disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing,’ to completely wipe out the Islamic terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities,” Trump wrote. “I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action. If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our CHERISHED Christians! WARNING: THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT BETTER MOVE FAST!”

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a close Trump ally, publicly endorsed the president’s order on social media, saying the Defense Department — which Trump referred to as the “Department of War” — was preparing contingency plans.

“The killing of innocent Christians in Nigeria — and anywhere — must end immediately,” Hegseth wrote. “Either the Nigerian Government protects Christians, or we will kill the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities.”

Trump’s declaration follows his administration’s decision on Friday to designate Nigeria as a “Country of Particular Concern” under the International Religious Freedom Act, citing “systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom.” The move effectively places Nigeria under formal U.S. scrutiny, opening the door for potential sanctions or other punitive measures.

Trump said Christianity faces an “existential threat” in Nigeria, claiming his administration has documented widespread persecution and killings targeting Christians. But the Nigerian government immediately rejected the U.S. accusations, describing them as inaccurate and unfair.

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, responding through a social media post, said the characterization of Nigeria as religiously intolerant “does not reflect our national reality, nor does it take into consideration the consistent and sincere efforts of the government to safeguard freedom of religion and beliefs for all Nigerians.”

Tinubu added that Nigeria remains committed to working with the United States and the international community “to deepen understanding and cooperation on protection of communities of all faiths.”

Presidential spokesman Bayo Onanuga went further, describing the U.S. designation and comments from Washington officials as “a gross exaggeration of the Nigerian situation.” He said that “Christians, Muslims, churches, and mosques are attacked randomly,” emphasizing that the violence is not rooted in religion but in deeper socio-economic and communal conflicts.

“What our country requires from America is military support to fight these violent extremists in some states of our country, not designation as a nation of particular concern,” Onanuga said.

Experts and local observers say the violence in Nigeria stems from a complex mix of factors, including insurgencies by groups such as Boko Haram and the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), as well as deadly attacks on farmers by herders over land and resources. Christian communities have suffered major attacks in recent years. Predominantly Christian areas like Plateau, Benue and Southern Kaduna have recorded concentrated attacks, resulting in the killings of hundreds.

The Nigerian authorities surprisingly started rehabilitation programs for “repentant terrorists”, a move that has been widely condemned as shielding them from punishment and mocking their victims. The Nigerian government has released over 2,553 former Boko Haram terrorists in nine years.

If carried out, a U.S. military operation in Nigeria would mark a major escalation in Washington’s engagement in West Africa, where American forces have maintained only a limited counterterrorism presence. It would also test U.S.-Nigeria relations, which have been anchored on security cooperation, economic development, and shared democratic values.

However, Trump’s threat has injected new uncertainty into diplomatic ties between the two nations, with Washington’s human rights claims clashing with Abuja’s insistence that the crisis is being misrepresented for political ends.

Google is intensifying efforts to make Search more personal than ever, with plans to introduce an “AI Mode” capable of drawing insights from users’ Gmail, Drive, and other Google apps.

The feature, now under development, is seen as part of the company’s broader push to redefine how people interact with Search—potentially transforming the internet’s information flow and disrupting traditional web traffic patterns.

In a recent podcast with Silicon Valley Girl, Google’s Robby Stein confirmed that the company is “exploring ways” to integrate AI Mode across its ecosystem.

“We announced at I/O an opportunity for users in the future to be able to opt into an experience with enhanced personalization,” Stein said. “We want people to be able to help Google and help the services know more about you so that it can be more helpful.”

The upcoming AI Mode would be capable of pulling real-time data from Gmail, Calendar, Maps, and Drive to deliver uniquely customized results. It could summarize flight bookings from Gmail, generate schedules automatically, or pull travel recommendations based on saved itineraries and map searches—all without users having to navigate multiple pages or apps.

This direction builds on Google’s ongoing rollout of its AI Overview, a generative feature that places AI-written summaries directly at the top of search results. The feature, powered by the company’s Gemini model, aims to provide direct answers rather than simply linking to external websites.

However, this shift has already begun to affect online publishers and media outlets that rely heavily on Google traffic. Multiple analytics firms have reported significant declines in referral visits since AI Overviews began appearing in search results earlier this year. Because users can now get summarized answers immediately on Google’s results page, they are less likely to click through to original sources—a trend that some publishers warn could threaten the economics of online journalism.

In September, Penske Media Corporation (PMC), owner of titles including Rolling Stone, Billboard, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, Vibe, and Artforum, filed a lawsuit accusing the tech giant of illegally repurposing news content to generate AI summaries that undercut publishers’ business models.

But Google has pushed back, insisting that its AI tools aren’t killing publisher traffic, even as its own product strategy and external data suggest otherwise. In a blog, Google’s Head of Search, Liz Reid, disputed claims that the company’s AI-driven features are siphoning off clicks. Reid wrote that total organic click volume from Google Search to websites has remained “relatively stable” year-over-year, and even claimed that the “average click quality” — measured by whether users linger on a page — has “slightly increased.”

“User trends are shifting traffic to different sites,” Reid noted, adding that “people are increasingly seeking out and clicking on sites with forums, videos, podcasts, and posts where they can hear authentic voices and first-hand perspectives.”

Stein, however, framed the upcoming personalization as a user-centric innovation, saying that the experience will remain optional.

“We did launch recently some steps in this direction. So in Labs now, you can opt into a new experiment for personalizing shopping and local recommendations for restaurants,” he explained.

It is not yet clear whether Google will train its AI models directly on users’ personal data, but the company insists the experience will be opt-in and privacy-controlled. Still, the growing integration of AI into Search—combined with access to personal information—marks a fundamental shift in how Google positions itself: no longer just an index of the web, but an intelligent assistant capable of predicting needs and producing original answers.

It is believed that as AI Overviews evolve and personalization deepens, Google’s Search could move further away from the traditional web model that sustains much of the internet’s publishing economy. While the company argues that AI-enhanced Search will improve user satisfaction, the looming question remains whether the convenience of personalization will come at the expense of the open web.