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Tower Resources PLC

16 March 2016

16 March 2016

Tower Resources plc

Grant of Options

Tower Resources plc (the "Company" or "Tower" (TRP.L, TRP LN)), the AIM listed Africa-focussed oil and gas exploration company, announces the following grant of options to certain directors, members of the management team and retained consultants.

The Remuneration Committee of the Board has decided to grant options over an aggregate of 134,400,000 ordinary shares at a premium of 150% over the current share price, being an exercise price of 0.19p per share and which was the Placing price of the Company's most recent placing announced on 15 July 2015. The options will vest in three equal tranches being 12, 24 and 36 months respectively after issue and will expire, if not previously exercised, on the fifth anniversary of their issue.

 
 Director/PDMR                 Number of options prior to    Number of options granted     Total number of remaining 
                               grant                         at 0.19p                      options 
----------------------------  ----------------------------  ----------------------------  ---------------------------- 
 Graeme Thomson, CEO                            68,000,000                    31,500,000                    99,500,000 
----------------------------  ----------------------------  ----------------------------  ---------------------------- 
 Nigel Quinton, Exploration 
  Director                                      42,000,000                    27,000,000                    69,000,000 
----------------------------  ----------------------------  ----------------------------  ---------------------------- 
 Philip Swatman, 
  Non-Executive Director                                 -                     1,500,000                     1,500,000 
----------------------------  ----------------------------  ----------------------------  ---------------------------- 
 Philip Frank, Non-Executive 
  Director                                               -                     1,500,000                     1,500,000 
----------------------------  ----------------------------  ----------------------------  ---------------------------- 
 Eric Griffith, Asset 
  Manager                                       18,700,000                    22,700,000                    41,400,000 
----------------------------  ----------------------------  ----------------------------  ---------------------------- 
 Andrew Matharu, VP 
  Corporate Affairs                             25,000,000                    16,600,000                    41,600,000 
----------------------------  ----------------------------  ----------------------------  ---------------------------- 
 Andrew Smith, Financial 
  Controller                                    25,400,000                    16,000,000                    41,400,000 
----------------------------  ----------------------------  ----------------------------  ---------------------------- 
 P.D.F Limited 2008 Employee 
  Benefit Trust                                 16,000,000                    12,000,000                    28,000,000 
----------------------------  ----------------------------  ----------------------------  ---------------------------- 
 Others                                          3,600,000                     5,600,000                     9,200,000 
----------------------------  ----------------------------  ----------------------------  ---------------------------- 
 Total                                         198,700,000                   134,400,000                   333,100,000 
----------------------------  ----------------------------  ----------------------------  ---------------------------- 
 

The total number of outstanding options is now 333,100,000 representing 4.6% of the fully diluted issued share capital of the Company with an exercise price ranging from 0.19 to 0.70 pence per share and with expiry dates ranging from December 2019 to February 2021.

Contacts

Tower Resources

Graeme Thomson (CEO)

Andrew Matharu (VP - Corporate Affairs)

+44 20 7253 6639

Peel Hunt LLP (Nominated Adviser and Broker)

Richard Crichton/Ross Allister

+44 20 7418 8900

Vigo Communications

Chris McMahon/Alex Aleksandrov

+44 20 7830 9702

This information is provided by RNS

The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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