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ASCENDANT ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENT OF MR. VAL COETZEE AS DIRECTOR OF PROCESS ENGINEERING

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Monday, October 16, 2023
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TORONTO, Oct. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Ascendant Resources Inc. (TSX: ASND) (OTCQB: ASDRF) (FRA: 2D9) ("Ascendant" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has strengthened its technical team with the addition of Mr. Val Coetzee who has been appointed as Director, Process Engineering.

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  • TORONTO, Oct. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Ascendant Resources Inc. (TSX: ASND) (OTCQB: ASDRF) (FRA: 2D9) ("Ascendant" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has strengthened its technical team with the addition of Mr. Val Coetzee who has been appointed as Director, Process Engineering.
  • Mr. Coetzee is a senior process engineering professional with over 25 years of experience in process engineering design, operational management, metallurgical analysis, risk analysis, economic valuation and executive leadership within the global mining industry.
  • For the past decade, Mr. Coetzee has been at DRA Global rising to the role of Senior Vice President for Process Engineering.
  • Mark Brennan, Executive Chairman of Ascendant stated, "We are extremely pleased to welcome Val to the Technical team at Ascendant.

Kole Omotoso, the Nigerian writer, scholar and actor who inspired a continent

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Monday, July 31, 2023
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Bankole Ajibabi Omotoso, better known as Kole Omotoso, the Nigerian novelist, playwright, journalist, scholar and actor, died on 19 July 2023.

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  • Bankole Ajibabi Omotoso, better known as Kole Omotoso, the Nigerian novelist, playwright, journalist, scholar and actor, died on 19 July 2023.
  • Omotoso not only wrote plays but was an actor as well – that made him special.
  • His books and plays are testaments to his faith in Nigeria and the place of humanity in the world.

Early life and academic career

    • He attended the University of Ibadan, where he studied Arabic literature, and obtained a PhD in Arabic at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
    • He returned home to the University of Ibadan to lecture in the department of Arabic and Islamic studies (1972–76).
    • He then moved to the drama department of the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife) from 1976 to 1988.

His legacy

    • It includes The Edifice (Heinemann, 1971); The Combat (Heinemann, 1972); Miracles (short stories) (Onibonoje Press, 1973); Fella’s Choice (Ethiope, 1974); and Sacrifice (Onibonoje, 1974).
    • Perhaps his most enduring and important book is Just Before Dawn, which is categorised as “faction” – a mixture of fiction and facts in fictionalised form.
    • It remains an important legacy that should be read by any literate Nigerian.

Life in exile


    In the heat of the ruinous military rule and the anomie of the 1980s Omotoso and other academics left Nigeria. After a spell in Europe Omotoso settled in South Africa. There, he was popularly known for his role in commercials for the cellphone company Vodacom in the 1990s. He was the “Yebo Gogo man”, who always humorously came to the rescue of an inept white man in various situations.

Personal encounters

    • I was a first-year student at the Bayero University in 1984/5 when he was touring the country to gather material for Just Before Dawn.
    • He spoke passionately about his project and why he was travelling around the country.
    • His pep talks to us about Nigeria, her potential and the need to document our stories and history caught my fancy.

EQS-News: EcoGraf Limited: Chemical Processing Expert Appointed to Lead BAM Development

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Thursday, March 16, 2023
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EcoGraf Limited (EcoGraf or the Company) (ASX: EGR; FSE: FMK; OTCQX: ECGFF) is pleased to announce that it has appointed Mr Jurgen Gnoinski as Manager - BAM Development.

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  • EcoGraf Limited (EcoGraf or the Company) (ASX: EGR; FSE: FMK; OTCQX: ECGFF) is pleased to announce that it has appointed Mr Jurgen Gnoinski as Manager - BAM Development.
  • In this role, Jurgen will lead the development and commercialisation of EcoGraf’s downstream HFfree purification technology that will supply battery anode material (BAM) to the high growth lithium-ion battery market.
  • Jurgen has more than 20 years’ experience in the development and operation of high efficiency metallurgical processing technologies across multiple commodities in Africa and Australia, including commercialisation of the DNi Process™ nickel extraction process.
  • He started his career with global miner Anglo American plc where he held a variety of process engineering and management roles, progressing to become Head of Technology Development and Governance in South Africa.

EQS-News: EcoGraf Limited: EcoGraf Appoints Epanko Project Development Executive

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Sunday, November 27, 2022
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EcoGraf Limited (EcoGraf or the Company) (ASX: EGR; FSE: FMK; OTCQX: ECGFF) is pleased to advise that it has engaged former Anglo-American executive Mr Chrisjan Van Wyk to lead development of the Epanko Graphite Project.

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  • EcoGraf Limited (EcoGraf or the Company) (ASX: EGR; FSE: FMK; OTCQX: ECGFF) is pleased to advise that it has engaged former Anglo-American executive Mr Chrisjan Van Wyk to lead development of the Epanko Graphite Project.
  • He subsequently joined Anglo American where he held a variety of project management roles with accountability for the successful delivery of new mine and infrastructure developments, project expansions and operational improvements.
  • Chrisjans key accountabilities at EcoGraf include managing all engineering, technical, environmental and social disciplines for the planned construction of the initial 60,000 tonne per annum Epanko Graphite Project, together with leading workstreams on future Epanko expansion options and development of the Merelani-Arusha Graphite Project.
  • Chrisjan has recently visited the Epanko site with EcoGrafs Chief Operating Officer Mr Dale Harris and the companys technical team.

CloudFactory Appoints Pieter Nel CTO to Lead Data-centric AI Strategy

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Monday, August 1, 2022
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Nel brings more than 20 years of experience, across three continents, in technology strategy and software engineering management at fast-growth technology companies.

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  • Nel brings more than 20 years of experience, across three continents, in technology strategy and software engineering management at fast-growth technology companies.
  • As CTO, he will lead the technology and machine learning (ML) teams, continuously evolving CloudFactorys platform as a key enabler for clients successful AI deployments.
  • Nel previously served as CTO at Ocrolus, where he scaled the New York companys human-in-the-loop AI document processing product.
  • Before Ocrolus, he was at McKinsey, advising clients on AI strategy and co-authoring several of the firms AI research studies.