TORONTO, ONTARIO ("Lakota" or the "Company") today announced the plans for a 2,000 metre diamond drilling program on its Tembo Property in North-central Tanzania. The multi-hole drill program will target two of the principal gold-bearing Target zones in the south of the Tembo property that have been identified by extensive soil geochemistry and reverse-circulation ("RC") drilling (Figure 1). Target 10 includes the previously-announced RC intersection of 7.03 g/t Au over 4 metres while Target 7 includes an RC intersection of 36.70 g/t Au over 1 metre. The drilling will test two extensive zones of historic artisanal bedrock gold mining. Both targets fall within a broad, roughly east-west zone some 600 m wide and 3.5 km long, in the southern part of the property. This zone is associated with northeast and northwest-trending structures immediately north of what appears to be a major east-west shear zone that crosses the Tembo property and continues east to intersect the NW Bulyanhulu trend in the area of the Bulyanhulu mine. Indeed, the Tembo property adjoins the mining licence of the producing Bulyanhulu gold mine (Barrick Gold Corp.) to the east. The Tembo property includes both the north-west strike extension of the gold bearing structure hosting the Bulyanhulu mine and, the focus of this drill program, the extensive areas of artisanal gold workings aligned along east-west linear structures that host auriferous quartz veins.

Subject to drill availability the program will commence no later than July 1, 2008.

Location

The Tembo Project consists of 22 Prospecting Licences covering an area of approximately 112.5 km2 within the Lake Victoria Gold District of north-central Tanzania. Fifteen of these licences, covering 75.7 km2, are 100% owned by Lakota. The other 7 licences, covering 36.8 km2, comprise two separate option groups.

Geology

The bedrock in the Tembo Property area is Archaean granite and greenstones of the Tanzanian Craton. The Nyanzian System greenstones are part of the regional Sukumaland Greenstone Belt that hosts the gold deposits of the Lake Victoria Goldfields. In the Tembo Property these greenstones are principally mafic volcanics, containing gold mineralization associated with quartz veins. The gold mineralization at the Bulyanhulu Mine to the east occurs within quartz veins associated with sulphidic argillite horizons at the contact between mafic and lesser felsic volcanics, and is known to extend to a depth of at least 2,000 metres. The Bulyanhulu stratigraphic/structural package is projected to continue along NW strike for up to 11 km across the Tembo Project.

To view Figure 1: Selected drill targets, please visit the following link - http://media3.marketwire.com/docs/LakotaMap0522.pdf

Technical information in this release was reviewed by Lakota's consulting geologist Martin Taylor, P.Geo., who acts as a qualified person in accordance with NI 43-101.

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Contacts: Lakota Resources Inc. Ian F.T. Kennedy President and CEO (416) 598-7700