The Lagos State Government has ordered a postmortem examination on nine-month-old identical twins, Testimony and Timothy Alozie, who reportedly d!ed about 24 hours after receiving routine immunisation at a primary health care centre in the state.

 

 

 

The deaths gained public attention after the twins’ father, Samuel Alozie, known on TikTok as Promise Samuel, posted videos showing the bodies of his sons in separate body bags while narrating how they became ill and d!ed shortly after the injections.

 

 

 

 

In a follow-up viral video on Thursday, January 15, Alozie said he took the twins for routine immunisation on the morning of December 24, 2025, and that they became extremely weak immediately afterwards. “They could not eat, they could not play, they could not even disturb as they used to. They were just weak,” he said.

 

 

 

According to him, a nurse at the health centre told them to give paracetamol if their temperature increased. He said he and his wife administered the drug and also bathed the children in cold water, but their condition did not improve.

 

 

 

 

“It happened that the immunisation was conducted on the 24th of December in the morning, and on the morning of 25th December, they d!ed. On the 24th, after the injection, they were very weak, and I gave them paracetamol because the nurse said that if the temperature continued, I should give them paracetamol. My wife bathed them in cold water. They d!ed on the 25th. The two of them d!ed at the same time. The drug weakened them to the extent that they couldn’t talk, they couldn’t eat, they couldn’t play as usual,” he said.

 

 

 

Alozie said the twins were healthy before the immunisation and had routinely received all their vaccines from birth. “I’m just confused. How can I lose two children, identical twins that I have suffered so much for? Just nine months, they were not sick. Just because I decided to fulfil the righteousness of taking them for immunisation,” he said.

 

 

 

 

He also said the nurse who administered the injections was not the regular official who usually attended to the children. He rejected preliminary explanations from the health centre that the de@ths might have been caused by “food bacteria.”

 

 

 

 

“The nurse is talking about bacteria, food bacteria. She said that it is food bacteria that killed my children. How can food bacteria k!ll a child? Food that I’ve been giving them from one month to nine months did not kill them,” he said.

 

 

 

The Permanent Secretary of the Lagos State Primary Health Care Board, Dr. Ibrahim Mustafa, who spoke to newsmen confirmed that investigations were underway and that the state had ordered a postmortem.

 

 

 

“We sympathise with them and we understand the grief these parents will be going through, but we would like for the right things to be done and the right decisions to be taken. It is being investigated by the police and we are also doing our investigation as a state, and we are expecting the postmortem findings. This particular vaccine has been given to many children before and after these kids, and nothing like this has been recorded,” he said.

 

 

 

 

Mustafa said the bodies were deposited at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital morgue and added that findings would be made public. “Once the postmortem findings are out, we will communicate appropriately,” he said.

 

 

 

Alozie said he feared the investigation might be manipulated to protect the government health facility, describing it as “government to government,” and appealed for legal help. “Please, if you are a lawyer, a human rights lawyer, help me. I don’t have money to fight this alone. I need justice for these children,” he said.