Information is essential and crucial to decision making. Reliable information is necessary for
building the awareness resources and practical strategies to improve life time experiences
capable of enhancing direct access to knowledge and power. The study therefore investigated the
information behaviour and socio-economic empowerment of textile market women in Nigeria.
The study adopted survey research design and purposive sampling technique to select two Geopolitical
Zones in Nigeria. Findings showed that there was a relative influence of information
needs, seeking, sources, and use on the socio-economic empowerment of the textile market
women. It was also discovered that information seeking has the highest significant influence on
the socio-economic empowerment of the textile market women (ß=0.48; t= 16.64;
p=0.000<0.05). Next to this was information sources (ß=0.30; t=13.05; p-0.000<0.05) and
identification of information needs (ß=0.14; t=5.05; p=0.000<0.05). However information use
had no significant influence (ß=0.01; t=0.81; p=0.859>0.05). The result indicated that the
Nigerian textile market women were innovative, dynamic and creative in their entrepreneurial
activities when they are empowered with information, which invariably would bring selfsustainability
and societal development. The study concluded that the information behaviour of
Nigerian textile market women in terms of needs, seeking, and sources have significant influence
on their socio-economic empowerment.