Peter OgbemudiaIn the past few years, one of the most familiar tech voices is that of Izzi Boye, from Nigeria. He reviews phones, laptops and gadgets in a way that feels like a friend explaining something in very simple terms. That tone is the one that captivates his audience and it’s also the same tone that keeps his audience captivated. His story has inspired young Africans who aim to make passion their career online, having started from a small town near Warri, to stages in Barcelona and Paris.
In this biography, you’ll learn who he really is, where he comes from, how he’s built his platform and what his metrics and influence are today.
Izzi Boye’s Real Name
Izzi Boye is a stage name. But his real name is Kelvin Aigbokhaevbolo. He selected a shorter Internet handle, easier to remember, which is more easy to hand around between platforms. Today he’s known by the vast majority of everybody in the tech space in Nigeria as Izzi Boye and the name has become a brand. He has a consistent Twitter, TikTok, Instagram and Facebook account name, which has enabled him to create a unified presence online with a clean online brand.
Izzi Boye’s Age
He has never published his year and date of birth. He had already been conducting WAEC lessons from as early as 2009 to at least 2010 at a fee as low as five thousand Naira per session, as he was interviewed and also studied Chemistry Education at the Delta State University, Abraka. From that history, he is generally thought to be in his early to mid thirties in 2026.
Early Life and Background
Izzi is a native of the Delta State region, near the town of Warri, around the community of Izzi. He is a second child of 6 kids. His father is a businessman and his mother was in fashion. Izzy was a very simple child who used to play a lot of football, like most Nigerian boys do, because there were no smart phones in his world. In his interview, he has admitted that he has been fond of gadgets since he finally got his own mobile phone. He enjoyed taking things apart and learning how they functioned and that particular stuff stayed with him throughout his life.
Boye was a hustler before creating content. He had home lessons for as low as three to five thousand naira, picked up a bit of graphic design knowledge, and started freelancing on Upwork his final year in school. This freelance work later enabled him to purchase gadgets that he reviewed on his initial YouTube videos.
Education
Izzi is a graduate of Delta State University (DELSU), Abraka with a degree in Chemistry Education. In reality, it wasn’t exactly his preferred direction. What he wanted to study was Pharmacy, but it didn’t work out. He also considered beginning a career in Marine Engineering, but his mother was against the idea and at that time only one university offered the course. He even thought about moving to Canada to work in tech, but didn’t. Rather, he stayed, he graduated, he took care of his side hustles in silence.
The road he took shaped him for where he is now. His content is focused on teaching. He can dissect and reconnect an idea into simpler, more digestible components. This is a skill that has been honed over years and in front of students, and not a content course.
How Izzi Boye Began His Career
He started his YouTube channel in late 2019. The funny part is that he was originally thinking of becoming a travel blogger. In the midst of his research on what phone to purchase for that travel project, he found that he was more interested in tech than travel writing. He added, teasingly, that he doesn’t care much for writing, so the YouTube route made more sense.
His first reviews were funded out of his own pocket. He used the phones for content and kept them or sold them and then took out small loans from loan apps and he paid back with his regular salary. Phones were cheaper back then, and he could purchase some of the phones he wanted for about one hundred & twenty thousand naira.
He got to 1,000 subscribers in just 6 to 8 months. He didn’t take long to meet his four thousand hours of watching requirement for monetisation. The first brand deal was when he reached a milestone of 5,000 subscribers by email. In 2021, about nine thousand subscribers, Tecno got in touch, which led to larger brands.
Content Style
What makes Izzi stand out is the calm and clean delivery that he has. He’s a reviewer that does not shy away from letting you know that a phone is “mid range.” He is also credited to be one of the first tech creators in Nigeria to bring ASMR clips to the Nigerian tech scene. His videos are focused on consumer tech, gadgets that the average Nigerian can afford and tips that are solutions to real everyday problems.
He addresses his audience as they are, rather than as he imagines them to be, and real budgets, not his inflated notions of them. He talks about pricing, data cost, network compatibility, battery life, and many more. That’s why his reviews matter.
Izzi Boye has an Instagram account at @izzi_boye. The page includes some of his video reviews of his products on YouTube, behind the scenes footage from events, videos of his brand campaigns and videos of his own lifestyle. In 2023, he had nearly 150,000 followers on Instagram, according to a feature on PiggyVest. Since then that number has increased as he has continued to expand his reach on all platforms. If you don’t always have time to watch long videos on YouTube, his Instagram is a much faster look into his world.
YouTube
He’s mostly active on YT. His channel is just Izzi Boye and that’s where he uploads his long form reviews, comparison videos, buyer guides and unboxing videos. Boye claimed that in 2025, he had 213,000 subscribers and had over 68 million views of his 460+ videos from 3rd party tracking sites. He posts at least one video per week and expects it to be consistent! He records mostly at night, which is a good indication of his working habits.
Izzy doesn’t have a lot of ‘YouTube’ followers. That is by design. He has admitted he likes to build trust at a steady pace, as this is the type of audience that will remain to listen to his product recommendations.
TikTok and Other Platforms
He has a TikTok account named @izziboye and is seeing a higher growth rate in his followers than on any of his other social media accounts. By the end of 2025 he had almost 1 million followers on TikTok. In the beginning of 2025, he started another TikTok channel under the name of @izzi_verse which is dedicated to gaming and live streaming. The concept is to combine tech, gaming and community in one environment, and to provide additional space for fans to engage in real-time.
He is also on Facebook (He is Boyeizzi) and @boyeizzi on Twitter and @izziboye. He has 1.4 million followers across his TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and Facebook accounts in 2025.
Brands, Awards and Global Recognition
Izzi Boye has been fortunate enough to have experience with many of the most prominent players in tech and finance. Some of his associates include Google, Meta, YouTube, ASUS, Tecno, Infinix, EcoFlow, FXTM and Zenith Bank.
In 2024, he has performed his first TEDx Talk, which is one of the most rewarding moments of his career. He’s been to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona three times, and has appeared at the Venice Film Festival, among other places, and was one of the first African creators to be officially named VivaTech Ambassador in June 2025 in Paris at VivaTech.
In December 2025, he was nominated and presented with the TikTok Sub Saharan Africa Award for Education Creator of the Year in Johannesburg. That was just another endorsement of his “teacher” reputation as a creator who teaches rather than entertains.
Izzi Boye’s Net Worth
Izzi Boye is a private person when it comes to money and hasn’t ever publicly said what his net worth is. But one thing we do know, he makes money on a variety of things: YouTube ad revenue, brand sponsorships, paid ambassadorships, event appearances and his growing number of TikTok followers. According to third-party tracking sites, he can make somewhere between a few hundred thousand and a few million dollars a year on YouTube. The numbers should not be taken as a fact but rather a range. He’s obviously making a large amount of money from it, that he is living in Lagos, that he invests in his gear, and that he is on a business track with his content.
People do not have to leave Nigeria to build a global voice, as Izzi Boye proves. He started with a borrowed idea, a loan app and a tenacious curiosity. Today, he is at the same tables as the world’s tech giants and is a representative of Africa on international platforms. He will keep on writing his story, and in the direction he is going, the best chapters are still to be written.
