The case has sparked debate over vaccine safety and confidence in primary healthcare services, with both state health authorities and the police conducting investigations

The Lagos State government has ordered a postmortem following the deaths of nine-month-old identical twins, Testimony and Timothy Alozie, after routine immunisation, as public concern grows over the incident.

The case has sparked debate over vaccine safety and confidence in primary healthcare services, with both state health authorities and the police conducting investigations.

The twins’ father, Samuel Alozie, known online as Promise Samuel on TikTok, drew widespread attention after posting videos showing his children in separate body bags.

He said the boys passed away less than 24 hours after receiving routine vaccinations at a local primary healthcare centre.

In a video posted on Thursday, Alozie said he noticed changes in their health immediately after the immunisation on December 24, 2025.

“They could not eat, they could not play, they could not even disturb as they used to. They were just weak,” he explained.

According to him, a nurse at the centre advised giving paracetamol if the twins developed a fever.

This, along with bathing them in cold water, was done, but their condition worsened.

Alozie said, “It happened that the immunisation was conducted on the 24th of December in the morning, and on the morning of 25th December, they died.

“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 died on the 25th. The two of them died 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.”

The grieving father, who said the twins had been healthy before the vaccination, challenged the explanation reportedly given by the nurse.

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

A Lagos State official said authorities are handling the matter carefully while awaiting the postmortem results. “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,” the official said.

The official added, “This particular vaccine has been given to many children before and after these kids, and nothing like this has been recorded.”

The postmortem results are expected to clarify the cause of the twins’ deaths and address public concerns over the safety of routine immunisation in Lagos State.

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