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. According to him, a nurse at the health centre advised that the children be given paracetamol if their temperature rose. He rejected preliminary explanations from the health centre that the deaths 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 kill a child?

Source: Punch January 17, 2026 08:03 UTC