"First ₦1M in 300 Level": Yhemolee Reveals Path to ₦100M in 2020 – "Everyone Made Money That Year"

Nigerian influencer, actor and nightlife figure Yhemolee, born Idowu Oluwaseun Oluwaferanmi Adeyemi, has set social feeds alight after a recent livestream in which he traced his rise from early university hustle to a six-figure haul in 2020. The clip went viral on March 22, 2026, with thousands of shares and comments across Instagram, Facebook, X and Threads.

He said his first ₦1 million came in 2014 while he was in 300 level, built from social media work, event hosting and side gigs that tapped into his knack for energy and crowdwork. He described that period as the start of an online presence and nightlife hustle that would scale over the next decade.

The leap to his first ₦100 million, he revealed, happened in 2020. In the clip he quipped, "Everyone made a lot of money that year," a line that has become fodder for memes and speculation about what exactly drove that windfall. Online conversations tie the moment to a mix of pandemic-era opportunities: a digital content boom, rebounds in events, crypto plays and other lockdown-era hustles.

Yhemolee’s story includes earlier risk-taking in crypto. He has spoken about holding 39 to 40-plus Bitcoin while at university and selling around 2016 to 2017 at prices that, in hindsight, cost him a much larger windfall. That episode is often cited when people discuss luck, timing and entrepreneurial instincts in his career.

Since those university days he has expanded into brand deals, Nollywood cameos, hosting prominent parties and wider entrepreneurship. Recent displays of wealth mentioned in the livestream include gifting his mother a Lexus RX 350, and buying property for family, details that have contributed to unofficial estimates of a net worth above ₦500 million.

The viral clip has done more than chronicle Yhemolee’s earnings. It reopened a broader conversation about who prospered during 2020 and how timing, risk and platform presence can turn small hustles into sizable returns. For now, his short account of a ₦1 million start in 2014 and a ₦100 million year in 2020 remains both a personal anecdote and a punchline for a social media moment.