The Lagos State Government has directed a postmortem examination into the deaths of nine-month-old identical twins, Testimony and Timothy Alozie, who reportedly passed away about a day after receiving routine immunisation at a primary healthcare centre in the state.
The case drew public attention after the children’s father, Samuel Alozie, a TikTok content creator known as Promise Samuel, posted videos showing the twins’ bodies in separate body bags while alleging they died shortly after the vaccination.
In a subsequent video shared on Thursday, Alozie said he took the twins for their scheduled immunisation on the morning of December 24, 2025, noting that they became unusually weak almost immediately after the injections.
He explained that the nurse who attended to them advised the parents to administer paracetamol if the babies developed a fever, adding that the medication was given at home when their condition failed to improve.
According to Alozie, the twins remained weak, stopped eating and playing, and showed no signs of recovery despite home care, before they died on the morning of December 25, less than 24 hours after the immunisation.
The grieving father insisted that the children were healthy before the hospital visit and said he had always ensured they received all routine vaccines since birth.
He also raised concerns about the identity of the nurse who administered the injections, claiming the health worker was not the regular official who usually attended to his children, while rejecting claims that the deaths could be linked to food-related bacteria.
Reacting to the incident, the Permanent Secretary of the Lagos State Primary Health Care Board, Dr Ibrahim Mustafa, told Saturday PUNCH that investigations were ongoing and that a postmortem had been ordered to determine the actual cause of death.
Mustafa said the twins’ bodies were deposited at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital morgue, adding that the findings of the autopsy would be made public, stressing that the vaccine involved had been administered to many children without similar incidents.