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1 Introduction Information Literacy Is the Ability to Know When Information Is Needed by an Individual Or Community of Individua ELK ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF MARKETING AND RETAIL MANAGEMENT ISSN 0976-7193 (Print) ISSN2349-2317 (Online); DOI: 10.16962/EAPJMRM/ISSN.2349-2317/2014,Volume 11 Issue 1 AN APPRAISAL OF INFORMATION LITERACY ON FLOODING REGIMES IN KATSINA STATE Lawal Iro Sani Muhammad Tukur Lawal department of library and information science, umaru department of library and information science, umaru musa ‘yar’adua university, katsina state musa ‘yar’adua university, katsina state [email protected] [email protected] ABSTRACT This study is on appraisal of information literacy among rural populace in Katsina state as it affects flood regimes. The specific objectives of the study are to identify the intensity of the hazard, the remote causes of the flood and to find out if there is any effort by all the three tiers of government in combatting the flooding hazard. A total of 9 local governments in three senatorial districts were surveyed. Out of these local governments, the researcher draws the target population of the study which comprises of 10 house hold participant, making a total of 90 respondents. Questionnaires were distributed and interview was conducted to obtain data from the respondents. The result of the study indicated that there exist serious flood in the study area due to lack of or none utilization of adequate information which was attributed to poor communication channels. The study recommends information literacy campaign, adequate sensitization of the populace, compliance with building and construction ethics among others to be some of the solutions to these problems. Keywords: Flood, information, literacy, Katsina, Nigeria 1 Introduction Information literacy is the ability to know based on information and knowledge. In when information is needed by Nigeria and especially in North Western an individual or community of individuals; Nigeria, we are in an increasingly complex to be able to find the information, evaluate society which needs adequate and timely the information and utilized the information information. Information is now available that has been generated and found. in a variety of formats but it may not be Information literacy has the following necessarily of the same quality. Despite the features which require specific skills and fact that information has been generated abilities to seek for information. It has to and is freely made available through many start also with the recognition that an sources, yet, rural populace are not utilizing individual/community of people need the information adequately and this may information for both decision making and have an adverse consequences. In order for task completion (Okogwu & Nnman, 2015) the society to survive physically and [1,] . economically, information and knowledge Accordingly, the world has changed from a skills therefore become paramount. The society with an economy based on labour main objective of this study is to appraise and capital to an economy how information literacy will enhance the utilization of information by rural populace 35 ELK ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF MARKETING AND RETAIL MANAGEMENT ISSN 0976-7193 (Print) ISSN2349-2317 (Online); DOI: 10.16962/EAPJMRM/ISSN.2349-2317/2014,Volume 11 Issue 1 as it affects flooding and its repercussion on westwards or north. Rivers in the south the society. include Karadua, Bunsuru, Gagare, Turami, The study is very relevant considering the and Sokoto. Dams in Katsina include Jibia, fact that most of the rural populace do not Zobe and Daberan. In the southern parts of utilized the information that emanates from the State, the covering material is largely government and other bodies when it came clay soil about 5 meters in depth and fine in to the issue of natural disasters. These texture. The soil becomes waterlogged with studies will sensitized and awaken the heavy rains, dries out and cracks down society on the need to seek and utilized during the dry season. The subsistence rain- information generated and disseminated to fed farming is the common economic them through whatever means. activity in the area and fragmented farmland form the dominant feature of land 2 Description of the study area use pattern. As an agrarian State, Katsina State is located on latitude 110 Katsina has more than 800,000 farming 081N and 130 221 N and longitude 60 521 families. Crops cultivated include cotton, E and 90 201 E which covers 24,192 Km2. maize and It shares border with Zamfara to the West, guinea corn. In the north, the drift deposits Kano and Jigawa to the East, Kaduna in the are coarser, resulting in light sandy soils of South and Niger Republic to the North. buff or Katsina has a population of 5,801,584 reddish color of medium fertility suited for (Makama, 2006) [2] and accounts for 4.1% crops such as millet and guinea of Nigeria’s population. With an annual corn(KTSG, 2016) [3] The State spreads growth rate of 2.2%, the population of the across three agro-ecological zones. Its State is currently at about 6 million. extreme northern fringes lie in the arid zone According to the State Ministry of of the Sahel, the vast tropical grasslands of Environment, the average distribution is the Sudan savannah from the north through 245 people per square kilometers. The State most of the south and then guinea savannah is composed of undulating plains that on the southern margins. The State falls generally rise gently from 360m in the into two climatic zones: the tropical northeast around Daura, to 600m around continental and the semi –arid continental. Funtua in the southwest. Generally, the The southern part of the state belongs to the state has two geological regions. The former with annual rainfall ranging from southern and central parts of the state are 1000mm around Funtua to over 800mm underlain by crystalline rocks of the around Dutsinma. The north of Katsina has basement complex, but in the northern parts total rainfall figures ranging from 600mm- cretaceous sediments overlap the 700mm annually. Climate however, varies crystalline rock. The Katsina –Daura plains considerably according to month and year. are at a lower base level than other parts of There is a cool dry (harmattaan) season the state. Southwards of the Katsina-Daura from December to February and a hot dry plains is a flat and gently undulating surface season from March to May. The which is the result of years of erosion on the temperature is generally cool in the surface rock. Major rivers originate in or morning, hot in the afternoon, and very cool traverse the State and these include Koza, in the evening. Maximum temperature Sabke, Tagwai and Gada flowing north- range in Katsina is between 290C and 410 36 ELK ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF MARKETING AND RETAIL MANAGEMENT ISSN 0976-7193 (Print) ISSN2349-2317 (Online); DOI: 10.16962/EAPJMRM/ISSN.2349-2317/2014,Volume 11 Issue 1 C but harmattaan season (November to form of river floods, coastal floods, flash February) lowers the temperature to about floods, urban floods and sewer floods, and 180 C and 270 C in the noon. can be caused by intense and/or long- The southern part of the State belongs to the lasting precipitation, snowmelt, dam Northern Guinea savannah zone while the failure, or reduced conveyance due to ice North jams or landslides. Impacts, Changes in belongs to the Sudan Savannah zone. The weather affect people globally, especially vegetation in the south consists of those who are already living in vulnerable broadleaved species with tall tussock areas like coastal belts, floodplains, grasses of guinea affinities mixed up with mountains or dry lands (Jurak & David, fine leaved species of thorny trees with 2002) [5,]. Flooding is an increasingly continuous short and feathery grass cover to common event in informal, urban withstand the long dry season and bush settlements, especially those located in low fires. The grass cover has durable roots. The lying areas with sub-standard housing and northern districts consist of trees that grow poor drainage systems. long tap roots and thick barks that make it Information is therefore a fact or details that possible for them, to remain underground tell you something about a situation, person after the stalks have wilted in the dry season and events. It has also been defined by and only to germinate with the first rains. Lawal & Akor (2017) [6] as a stimulus that Only 12% of the state is forested. has meaning in some context for its receiver. While Opara (2013), defined 3 Conceptual Definition information as the output of sensory A disaster is a serious disruption of the experiences, observations, experiments and functioning of a community of a society other human activities. involving widespread human, material, There are some ethical and legal issues that economic or environmental loss and are extremely important part of being impacts, which exceeds the ability of the information literate. Okogwu &Nnam affected community or society to cope (2013) [7] were of the view that ethical and using its own resources. Disasters are seen legal issues have an impact not only on as the consequence of inappropriately whether you may or may not use the managed risk. These risks are the product of information you need, but also on how to a combination of both hazards and use information correctly and according to vulnerability (Gambo, 2016) [4]. Disasters the law. Hence, our rural populace needed triggered by natural hazards are killing to know how to seek and use information more people over time and costing more. within the confinement of the law. Various phenomena like earthquakes, Vulnerability to disaster has been defined landslides, volcanic eruptions, floods, as: The characteristics and circumstances of hurricane etc., are natural hazards that kill a community, system or asset that make it thousands of people and destroyed billions susceptible to the damaging effects of a of Naira of habitat and property each year.
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