He picked up his phone and tweeted: "I want to join the team."
He was some 8,700km (5,400 miles) away from the front line, in a small apartment in Nigeria's main city, Lagos.
The philosophy graduate is one of several hundred Africans, from countries like Nigeria, Kenya, Senegal, South Africa and Algeria, who say they are willing to take up arms in the battle against Russia, partly to escape the bleak prospects faced by many young men at home.
"We know that it's war, it's not child's play," he told the BBC. "But being a soldier in Ukraine would be better than being here.
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