摘要
With high urbanization and weak financial bases, Local Governments in Nigeria are struggling to keep up with the rapid pace of change. Despite commitment to sustainable development by the Nigeria government, poor or inappropriate data management practices have posed constraints towards realization of its set goals. The potential for digital data technology is therefore being recognized by many government and local authority managers as a necessary aid to informed decision making during planning and delivery of services. However, it is common practice for spatial data within the same authority to be stored in formats not conducive to their effective use as a common resource and information being withheld unnecessarily from other users. With reference to Katsina, this paper draws on Nigeria's relatively well developed cadastre system to explore how a cadastre-based Land development system can be developed for easy identification of properties and their owners/occupiers; and the formation, and implementation of databases to facilitate efficient processing and dissemination of spatial data for sustainable management of Land resources. Despite the initial high cost of implementing a Geographic Information System, and although it might be argued that the circumstances are different, the paper draws parallels with the initial land registration process in Nigeria whose records are still being use by government through data sales many decades later and argues for its (GIS) implementation. The paper focuses on providing technical solutions for better spatial data management as they relate management and delivery of Land resources services in Katsina.