A Lagos-based father, Samuel Alozie, popularly known on TikTok as Promise Samuel, has narrated the painful loss of his nine-month-old identical twin sons, Testimony and Timothy, who allegedly died less than 24 hours after receiving injections at a primary health care centre.
The heartbreaking incident drew widespread attention after Alozie shared a viral video showing his twins laid in separate body bags. In a follow-up post, he gave a detailed account of what happened in the days leading to their deaths.
According to him, he took the babies for routine immunisation on the morning of December 24, 2025. He said the twins began reacting almost immediately after the injections, becoming unusually weak and inactive.
“It happened that the immunisation was conducted on the 24th of December, in the morning. And on the morning of 25th December, they died,” he said.
Alozie explained that after returning home from the health centre, the babies’ condition worsened. Acting on the nurse’s advice, he and his wife administered paracetamol when the twins developed a fever, but their condition did not improve.
“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,” he said.
He added that the twins could no longer eat, play, or behave as they normally did.
“The drug weakened them to the extent they couldn’t talk, they couldn’t eat, they couldn’t play as usual,” he said.
Tragically, both children reportedly died at the same time on Christmas Day.
“The two of them died at the same time,” Alozie said. “My twins, my nine-month-old children, they have killed them. You can’t tell me that my children, who were not sick, who were strong and sound… they are dead.”
He insisted that his sons had never suffered any serious illness since birth, describing them as healthy and active babies.
“From the first day I gave birth to them, I’ve been taking them for immunisation. They were not sick. Just because I decided to fulfil the righteousness of taking them for immunisation,” he said.
Alozie also noted that the nurse who attended to the twins during their final immunisation was not the usual health worker familiar with his children.
Reacting to explanations allegedly given by the health centre, the grieving father rejected claims that the babies died from food-related bacteria.
“The nurse is talking about bacteria, food bacteria. How can food bacteria kill a child? Food that I’ve been giving them from one month to nine months, the food didn’t kill them. How is it possible?” he asked.
While an autopsy has reportedly been conducted, Alozie expressed fears that the outcome could be influenced because the health facility involved is government-owned. He lamented his lack of financial strength to pursue the case alone and appealed for legal support.
“Please, if you’re a lawyer, a human rights lawyer, please help me. I don’t have a lawyer, and you know, government issue,” he said.
“I’m scared because I don’t know if this government will give me the actual justice. This is government to government,” he added.
Despite burying his children, Alozie said he is determined to seek accountability.
“I need justice for these children. I have buried them, but I know that their spirit is still not at peace, because they died untimely deaths,” he said.
As of now, neither the Lagos State Ministry of Health nor the Primary Health Care Board has released an official statement on the incident or the autopsy findings.
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Oh LORD, not again!
Could be as a result of expired drugs. Or an auxiliary nurse gambled with the lives of the infants.
I remember years ago, when an auxiliary nurse aka quack nurse almost gave me an overdose injection… It was God’s mercy and grace that saved me that day..
I was an “Out Patient” at a hospital here in Lagos, placed on 5 days daily visits for injections. A particular nurse was always the one administering the injection on me, until one faithful day… don’t know what happened that she sent an auxiliary nurse on training to attend to me.
Just fee seconds from being injected, the real nurse just appeared to check up and supervise the person attending to me: the next thing I heard was: “Do you want to kill her ni?”. She said it in Yoruba language. She because very furious with the auxiliary nurse for the gross mistake of not following instructions.
Jeeeze! I was shivering… I was terrified to know that I just cheated death. God saved me that day. I will never forget the experience.