Press Release - April 25, 2007

NORTHERN SHIELD RESOURCES INC.
NRN: TSX-V

NORTHERN SHIELD ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENT OF JEFF S. BOYCE AS A DIRECTOR AND GRANTING OF STOCK OPTIONS

Ottawa (April 25, 2007 - TSX:V-NRN) – Northern Shield Resources Inc. ("Northern Shield") (TSX-V: NRN) is pleased to announce that Jeff S. Boyce has beenappointed as a director of Northern Shield. Mr. Boyce is a senior oil and gasexecutive with over 27 years of domestic and international experience inbuilding, financing and managing public oil and gas companies. Mr. Boyce iscurrently the President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board ofDirectors of Sure Energy Inc. and the Executive Chairman of the Board ofDirectors of Sound Energy Trust. Both Sure and Sound are public oil and gasissuers. Mr. Boyce is also currently a director of Stonefire Energy Corp., apublic oil and gas company, and Galveston LNG Inc., a private liquifiednatural gas company. Mr. Boyce is the former President and Chief ExecutiveOfficer of Clear Energy Inc., which was a Toronto Stock Exchange ("TSX")listed oil and gas company, as well as the former Co-Founder, President, ChiefExecutive Officer and a director of Clear's predecessor Vermilion ResourcesLtd., which was a TSX listed oil and gas company with operations in Canada,France and Trinidad. Mr. Ian Bliss, Northern Shield's President and ChiefExecutive Officer, stated "We are very pleased to have Mr. Boyce join NorthernShield's Board of Directors, his experience and contacts are a valuableaddition to Northern Shield's Board."

Northern Shield also announces that it has granted to its directors,officers and employees options to acquire a total of 685,050 common shares.The options have an exercise price of $0.40 per share and expire in fiveyears.

Northern Shield is an innovative, results-driven Canadian company focusedon PGE (platinum group elements) in Canada. Its mission is to create asuccessful mineral exploration company through technical excellence andefficient management, where success is measured by the identification anddevelopment of high-quality mineral exploration projects, which may ultimatelybe optioned, sold or developed for optimal benefit. For information onNorthern Shield and its properties, please visit Northern Shield's website at www.northern-shield.com.

THE TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE HAS NEITHER APPROVED NOR DISPROVED THE CONTENTS OF THIS PRESS RELEASE

For further information please contact:

Northern Shield Resources Inc.
Ian Bliss
President and CEO
Tel.: (613) 232-0459
Fax: (613) 232-0760
info@northern-shield.com

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