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CHI-CHI LAYS FIRST EGG; REPUBLIC DECLARES PUBLIC HOLIDAY
By Kọ́lápọ̀ Ọ̀nàbánjọ · 2 June 2026
Active citizen
Her Excellency, President of the Republic
Adédoyin “Mama Decree”
Adédoyin Fọlásadé Ọlásunkànmí
Adédoyin, adé tí ó dùn bí oyin(Adédoyin, the crown that is sweet as honey)
The Republic's first citizen, who rose from an ordinary nest in Coop Three to the highest perch in the land, and never lets anyone forget that breakfast waits for no bird.
- Tribe
- Isa-Brown
- Age
- Senior hen
- Laying status
- Laying
- Office
- President of the Republic of Kisi
- Party
- Progressive Peckers Party (PPP)
- Favourite food
- Cracked maize, taken precisely at 7:00 a.m.
The story so far
Adédoyin hatched, by her own account, 'without connections, without godfathers, and without even a decent nesting box.' What she had was presence. Older hens still describe the day a young pullet from Coop Three stood in front of the feed trough during the Great Breakfast Delay and simply refused to move until everybody was served in order of arrival. The queue she invented that morning is now national infrastructure.
Her rise was steady: convener of the Trough Queue Committee, Speaker of the Coop Assembly, and finally President, elected on the slogan 'Forward with Feed.' Her first act in office was Executive Order No. 1, breakfast at seven, 'not seven-ish', and her nickname, Mama Decree, followed within the hour. She signs orders with a flourish and reads them aloud twice: 'once for the record, once for the hard of hearing.'
Critics call her government fond of ceremony; supporters point out that the ceremonies start on time. Her closest political friendship is also her most improbable one: she and opposition leader Halima 'Iron Feathers' arrived at Kisi in the same crate as chicks, and whatever they shout across the Assembly floor by day is reliably settled over a quiet scratch by the fence at dusk.
She remains a working layer and insists her eggs join the National Egg Census 'like everyone else's, the Republic has no royal eggs.'
Life events
2 June 2026
The first egg
Certified within the hour; public holiday declared retroactively; statement in full: 'I did my best.' Quiet Grace makes no comment, magnificently.
Coverage in The Coop Times →13 July 2026
A two-sentence acceptance speech
Pete Okpara is sworn in as Minister of Security. 'I know what the job is. Ask me again in a year.' He institutes the Bantu Protocol the same night: every bird counted aloud, by name.
20 July 2026
Six empty chairs
The President announces that every acting arrangement ends this week: six vacant ministries, six substantive appointments, and no more chairs kept warm by the Presidency. The Opposition welcomes it and promises to audit all six budgets by Friday.
21 July 2026
Grain and water
Musa the Grainkeeper takes Feed and Agriculture; Emeka the Drain Marshal takes Water and Environment. Two Noiler infrastructure hands who already ran the store and the drains, now with the titles to match. Musa's first act: an inspection of the store, by smell.
24 July 2026
A full cabinet, at last
For the first time in the Republic's memory, no ministry is vacant. The Opposition delivers its promised audit of all six budgets, finds them suspiciously reasonable, and demands a recount of the recount. The President calls it a good week.
In The Coop Times
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'A NATION THAT EATS LATE, LAYS LATE', THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS
By Presidency Desk · 2 May 2026
Egg milestones
The President's running total, published in the Census by her own insistence: 'The Republic has no royal eggs.' Audited, at her request, by the opposition.
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