Speaking to SaharaReporters, the affected interns said they began their internship in February 2025 with an agreed monthly stipend of ₦220,000.
Interns at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex (OAUTHC), Ile-Ife, have accused the management of failing to pay several months of their salaries and allowances, despite the completion of their internship programme.
Speaking to SaharaReporters, the affected interns said they began their internship in February 2025 with an agreed monthly stipend of ₦220,000.
According to them, interns in federal hospitals are not paid for their first three months, with the expectation that the accumulated salaries would be paid from the fourth month.
However, they said that in May, when they were due to receive payment for the first three months, amounting to ₦660,000, they were instead paid only ₦110,000, which they said covered just half of one month's salary.
The interns said repeated attempts to obtain their payslips and seek clarification from hospital authorities yielded no satisfactory response.
"We went to meet them to request our payslips, and why we got N110,000 instead of the full money, which is N660,000,” they told SaharaReporters. “The reason for the half salary in May was that the 2025 budget had not been signed.”
From June to November 2025, the interns said that they received only about 90 per cent of their monthly salary, amounting to roughly ₦203,000 instead of the full ₦220,000.
They added that as of the time of reporting, their December salary had not been paid, while their January payment had not been scheduled.
“From June to November, we started getting 90% of our salary, which is N203,000, and till now we have not received December salary, with January not even in sight,” they said.
Breaking down the outstanding payments, the interns alleged that OAUTHC owes them salaries for March and April, half payment for May, full salaries for December 2025 and January 2026, as well as the remaining N17,000 shortfall from each month between June and November.
"That means all together, OAUTHC is owing us March, April, half payment of May, December, and January, then the 8% of each month from June to November,” one of the interns said.
“They haven’t given any reasonable explanation for the continued cut in salary.”
The interns further lamented that despite completing their internship programme, the hospital management has continued to ignore their complaints and requests for resolution.
They described the situation as frustrating and unfair, noting that all efforts to engage the relevant authorities at the teaching hospital have so far been unsuccessful.
"The crazy thing is that we are done with the internship programme, and they have been ignoring us, and they are still ignoring us despite all our efforts to talk to them,” they said.
SaharaReporters made multiple attempts to obtain a response from the hospital management regarding the matter.
The publication contacted the hospital’s Director of Finance, Mr. Osunmuyiwa Moshood, but he neither answered calls nor responded to a WhatsApp message, despite having read it.