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The Lagos State Government has ordered a postmortem examination following the deaths of nine-month-old identical twins, Testimony and Timothy Alozie, who reportedly died about 24 hours after receiving routine immunisation at a primary health care centre in the state.
The incident drew public attention after the twins’ father, Samuel Alozie, popularly known on TikTok as Promise Samuel, shared videos online showing the bodies of his sons in separate body bags. In the videos, he recounted how the children reportedly fell ill shortly after receiving the injections and later died.
In a subsequent video that went viral on Thursday, January 15, Alozie said he took the twins for routine immunisation on the morning of December 24, 2025. According to him, the children became unusually weak shortly after the vaccination.
“They could not eat, they could not play, they could not even disturb as they used to. They were just weak,” he said.
Alozie stated that a nurse at the health centre advised them to administer paracetamol if the children developed a fever. He said he and his wife followed the advice and also bathed the twins with cold water, but their condition failed to improve.
He explained that the immunisation was administered on the morning of December 24 and that both children died on Christmas Day, December 25. According to him, the twins died at the same time, adding that they were unable to eat, play, or respond normally before their deaths.
Alozie maintained that the twins were healthy prior to the immunisation and had received all required vaccines since birth without complications. He said the sudden loss had left him devastated and confused.
He also claimed that the nurse who administered the injections was not the usual health worker who attended to his children during previous visits. Alozie rejected an initial explanation from the health centre suggesting that the deaths might have been caused by food contamination.
“The nurse is talking about bacteria, food bacteria. How can food bacteria kill a child? Food that I have been giving them from one month to nine months did not kill them,” he said.
