[2] Zanna Bukar Dipcharima was born in 1917 at Dipchari village in the Bornu Province (now in Borno State) of Northern Nigeria.

[4]: 339 In 1954, he resigned his managerial position to re-enter politics after he was invited by the Borno Province branch Northern People's Congress (NPC) to assume its presidency.

As Federal Minister of Commerce and Industry, he traveled to U.S in the fall of 1963 to seek American commercial interests in the development of manufacturing in Nigeria, a move if successful will reduce the influence of deeply entrenched British firms in the economy.

[5] In 1964, Dipcharima took the portfolio of the Minister of Transport and was holding this office when the federal civilian government was overthrown in the military coup of 15 January 1966.

[6] In the aftermath of the coup, he presided over the Cabinet that handed over power to the armed forces in the absence of the abducted Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa.