The Lagos State Government has ordered a postmortem on 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 case drew public attention after the twins’ father, Samuel Alozie, popularly known as Promise Samuel on TikTok, shared videos showing the bodies of his sons in separate body bags, alleging they died shortly after vaccination on December 24, 2025.
In a follow-up video, Alozie said the children became weak immediately after the injections. “They could not eat, they could not play, they could not even disturb as they used to. They were just weak,” he said, adding that a nurse advised administering paracetamol if their temperature rose. “It happened that the immunisation was conducted on the 24th of December in the morning, and on the morning of 25th December, they died… The two of them died at the same time,” he said.
Alozie maintained that the twins were healthy before the immunisation and rejected claims from the health centre that the deaths might have been caused by “food bacteria,” saying, “How can food bacteria kill a child?”
Meanwhile, the Permanent Secretary of the Lagos State Primary Health Care Board, Dr Ibrahim Mustafa, said investigations were ongoing and that a postmortem had been ordered, adding, “We sympathise with them and we understand the grief these parents will be going through… This particular vaccine has been given to many children before and after these kids, and nothing like this has been recorded.”
He said the bodies were deposited at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital morgue and assured that findings would be made public, stating, “Once the postmortem findings are out, we will communicate appropriately,” while the bereaved father appealed for legal support, expressing fears that the probe could be compromised.