Board Changes

For immediate release

25 May 2016

Nyota Minerals Limited

('Nyota' or 'the Company')

Board changes

Following the General Meeting of Shareholders ("Meeting") held earlier today in Perth, Western Australia Mr Jonathan Morley-Kirk; Mr Andrew Wright; and Mr Sergii Budkin have been appointed directors of the Company pursuant to and in accordance with section 201G of the Corporation Act and rule 4.4 of the Constitution.

Following completion of the Meeting, Mr Chase, Dr Kirby and Mr Langoulant all resigned as Directors of the Company. Mr Langoulant will remain as the Company Secretary.

New Directors

The following information, as announced previously, is disclosed pursuant to paragraph (g) of Schedule Two of the AIM Rules for Companies.

At the date of this announcement, none of Mr Jonathan Morley-Kirk, Mr Andrew Wright and Mr Sergii Budkin had any interest in any Shares of the Company.

Mr Jonathan Morley-Kirk

Jonathan Morley-Kirk held positions at Samuel Montagu and SG Warburg in London before he moved to Jersey in 1995. He has over ten years of experience as a non-executive director/chairman of AIM and TSX listed Companies. He is currently a non-executive director of East Siberian PLC, Sarossa PLC and Bluebird Merchant Ventures Limited. He was chairman of Fox-Davies Capital, a London based stockbroker and investment manager that focused on the natural resources sector. Mr Morley-Kirk is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments, and a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners.

Mr Jonathan Charles Rowell Morley-Kirk, aged 54, has held the following directorships and / or partnerships in the past 5 years:

There is no further information to be disclosed in relation to Mr Morley-Kirk pursuant to paragraph (g) of Schedule Two of the AIM Rules for Companies.

Mr Andrew Wright

Andrew Wright is currently chief financial officer of Bluebird Merchant Ventures Limited and a director of Etres Resources Limited, an Australian-based holding company for investments into exploration assets in the Philippines. Mr Wright is a director of Etruscan Capital Pty Limited, a boutique investment advisory practice responsible for provision of advice to sophisticated investors in the equity, debt and property markets. Mr Wright has held a number of other directorial positions in private companies. Mr Wright holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Financial Planning from the Securities Institute of Australia, and qualified as a chartered accountant in Australia in 1992.

Mr Andrew David Lincoln Wright, aged 52, has held the following directorships and / or partnerships in the past 5 years:

Mr Andrew Wright is a director of Etres Resources Limited ("Etres"), an Australian unlisted holding company with interests in mining exploration in the Philippines, which was placed into Voluntary Administration on 9 October 2015 and which is ongoing. Mr Wright is indirectly the largest creditor of Etres and has proposed a Deed of Company Arrangement which has been approved by Etres' creditors and the Administrator. The deficit to qualifying creditors amounts to AUD$146,674.

There is no further information to be disclosed in relation to Mr Wright pursuant to paragraph (g) of Schedule Two of the AIM Rules for Companies.

Mr Sergii Budkin

Mr Budkin is the co-founder and Managing Partner of FinPoint LLC, an independent investment-banking firm that specialises in M&A, strategic advisory and debt advisory and restructuring in Ukraine, Russia and the wider CIS region (www.finpoint.biz). Mr Budkin is also a Director of OJSC BystroBank, a regional retail bank in Russia, and Chairman of the Supervisory Board at PJSC Trust Bank (Ukraine). Mr Budkin holds a Masters in Mathematics from Taras Shevchenko Kiev State University).

Mr Sergii (Sergey) Budkin, aged 49, has held the following directorships and / or partnerships in the past 5 years:

There is no further information to be disclosed in relation to Mr Budkin pursuant to paragraph (g) of Schedule Two of the AIM Rules for Companies.

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