Mr. Mark Jarvis reports

GIGA APPOINTS MANAGER OF DEVELOPMENT

Giga Metals Corp. has appointed Lyle Trytten as manager of development. Mr. Trytten will be responsible for all technical aspects of advancing the geology, metallurgy and engineering of the Turnagain project. His mandate will also include oversight of environmental, permitting and government relations.

Mr. Trytten has more than 25 years of experience in the nickel industry and was previously the general manager, sustainability, at Sherritt International Corp. at its Alberta nickel refinery, where his role included overseeing environmental and community stakeholder work areas. Previously, Mr. Trytten managed Sherritt's acclaimed metallurgical research group and full-service engineering group, as well as managed the project review component (including technical review and economic modelling) for the growth mandate of Sherritt's technology division. Mr. Trytten has been personally involved with metallurgical operations on five continents, including a one-year secondment to the Murrin Murrin nickel refinery in Australia (now owned by Glencore) and start-ups of metallurgical processing facilities in the United States and Indonesia.

"We are very pleased to welcome Mr. Trytten to the team," commented Mark Jarvis. "People of Lyle's calibre are rare in our industry. He will be a critical part of advancing the Turnagain project as a credible alternative to the giant greenfields HPAL projects as a potential source of new supply of nickel suitable for conversion to Class 1 or chemical products to feed the rapidly growing lithium-ion battery industry."

"Giga Metals has a very exciting project," commented Mr. Trytten. "Turnagain has a large resource that has the potential to produce high-grade nickel and cobalt concentrate with very low impurities, using a relatively simple flowsheet. I look forward to helping optimize the project and to working with local communities and first nations as we develop a sustainable project that will deliver economic benefits for many years to come."

Stock options

Pursuant to the company's stock option plan, approved by the TSX Venture Exchange, the company will be granting 150,000 stock options to Mr. Trytten, subject to certain vesting provisions, exercisable at 30 cents per share and expiring on July 26, 2024.

About Giga Metals Corp.

Giga Metals is focused on metals critical to modern batteries, especially those used in electric vehicles and energy storage. The company's core asset is the Turnagain project, located in Northern British Columbia, which contains one of the few significant undeveloped sulphide nickel and cobalt resources in the world.

The technical aspects of this news release have been reviewed and approved by Lyle Trytten, PEng, a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101.

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